Rossiya Airlines to launch Zagreb and Ljubljana service
The Aeroflot-owned Rossiya Airlines plans to commence flights from St Petersburg to both Zagreb and Ljubljana next month. The airline has scheduled a one weekly service from Russia’s second largest city to both the Croatian and Slovenian capitals, although seat availability is still zeroed out at the time of publication, meaning tickets are yet to be put on sale. The Russian carrier intends on maintaining flights to Zagreb each Friday starting January 21, while operations to Ljubljana are due to be inaugurated the following day, on Saturday January 22. Changes remain possible, however, the carrier recently applied and received permits from the Russian aviation authority to introduce services to both cities.
Based on its current schedule, flights to Zagreb will be maintained with the 168-seat Airbus A320 aircraft, featuring twelve seats in business class and the remaining 156 in the economy cabin. On the other hand, operations to the Slovenian capital will be operated by the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, boasting 87 seats, of which twelve are in the business class cabin. As a result, both cities are set to see their first scheduled nonstop service to St Petersburg. During the pre-pandemic 2019, 3.983 passengers flew indirectly on a single itinerary between Russia’s second largest city and Zagreb based on OAG data. Similarly, 3.428 travellers flew indirectly between St Petersburg and Ljubljana.
There has been increased demand for services between Russia and Zagreb in recent months due to the availability of coronavirus vaccines for foreigners in Croatia. Russian citizens, who can only be vaccinated against Covid-19 with Russian-manufactured vaccines in their home country, are increasingly seeking different types of jabs in order to be able to travel throughout Europe and the United States, which, for the most part, do not recognise the Russian Sputnik vaccine. Last week, Russia’s S7 Airlines scheduled one weekly operations between Moscow and Zareb starting next month. On the other hand, Slovenia recently resumed issuing tourist visas to Russian nationals for the first time in almost two years, resulting in increased demand as Slovenia is one of just a handful of European Union member states to recognise the Sputnik vaccine.
Further flight details for the planned St Petersburg - Zagreb service can be viewed here, while additional information for the planned St Petersburg - Ljubljana flights can be found here.
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