Russia is not only resuming routes; create others towards the Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO, RD – After the Russian Operational Office in charge of coronavirus control recommended ending restrictions on air traffic between Russia and the Dominican Republic, which will happen from next Friday 27, it was announced that new ones will also be opened routes between both nations.

«We have received confirmations from the most important Russian tour operators about the expansion of their operations and flights to the Dominican Republic, which include not only a greater number of frequencies from Moscow airports, but also the reactivation of flights from Russian cities that they had been discontinued for years. Even before the pandemic. Likewise, flights will be inaugurated from cities in the interior regions of Russia that had never had a direct connection with our destinations, ”reported the Dominican embassy in Moscow.

The press release of the diplomatic legation adds that it is also hoped that the Dominican Republic “becomes a regional connection point, taking advantage of its strategic location” and that passengers embarked in Russia leave Dominican territory for other destinations in the area.

«The Russians who visit us can also connect with other destinations of their interest throughout Central America and the Caribbean. We have always believed in the potential of the countries of our region to become a multi-destination option, taking advantage of the cultural and historical richness that unites us, as well as the unique attractions that characterize each country and the warmth of our sister peoples ”, he highlights about.

The airline Azur Air and the tour operator Pegas Touristik

The airline Azur Air has announced that it will resume its flights from the beginning of October to the Dominican Republic from Saint Petersburg, the second Russian city, and that it will add other as emblematic as Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Rostov and Novosibirsk.

For its part, the important tour operator Pegas Touristik reported that from September it will fly to Punta Cana, Samaná and Puerto Plata from Moscow and from October 1, flights from Ufa, Kazan and Novosibirsk would be added.

The cities mentioned are some of the so-called “millionaire cities” in Russia, those with a population of over one million inhabitants, and which constitute the economic and cultural centers of the country.

St. Petersburg has 5,384,342 inhabitants, Novosibirsk has 1,620,162, Yekaterinburg has 1,495,066, Kazan has 1,257,341, Ufa has 1,125,933 and Rostov has 1,137,704.

With this multiplication of destinations to the Dominican Republic and with a renewed variety of points of origin from Russia, «that serve the Dominican destinations, our country is placed in a privileged position for the expansion of Russian tourism, with the capacity to receive visitors from different regions in the heart of Russia since we now have frequent flights from cities in the Urals, Siberia, as well as in the north and south of Russia, “the Dominican diplomatic legation congratulates.

The maximization of air traffic will allow, he concludes, “to resume the pre-pandemic growth course that Dominican exports of goods were taking to Russia, since in the case of fruits almost all of their cargo was sent by air.”