TOMSK, Mar 30 – RIA Tomsk. Nordwind Airlines and Ikar Airlines from the end of April will operate direct flights from Tomsk to St. Petersburg, follows from the data posted on the website of the Tomsk Bogashevo Airport.
"Tomsk-St. Petersburg. Travel time is 4 hours 30 minutes. Nordwind Airlines jointly with Ikar Airlines. Route operation from April 26 on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, except for the period from May 8 to 24, when there will be two flights a week – on Mondays and Saturdays," follows from the data of the airport.
According to the website of the Nordwind airline, the minimum cost of a ticket for one passenger (without luggage) will be 7.1 thousand rubles. The flights will be operated by Boeing-737.Earlier it was reported that recently it was possible to fly from Tomsk to St. Petersburg with a transfer in Moscow, flights were carried out by Aeroflot and S7 Airlines. Also, Tomsk residents could fly to the Northern capital directly from Tomsk for the New Year and Christmas at the end of December 2020 – early January 2021.
It was also reported that the passenger traffic of the Tomsk airport in 2020 amounted to about 348.5 thousand people, which is 54% lower compared to 2019. The drop in this indicator in Tomsk is the maximum among the airports of Siberia.