Pobeda to launch flights from St. Petersburg to Minsk in June

The Pobeda low-cost airline (a subsidiary of Aeroflot) will launch flights from St. Petersburg to MINSK from June 10, the company's press service told RBC.

Flights will take place on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The first flight has already appeared in the schedule on the website. The plane leaves at 12:40 and lands at 14:10.

Flights to Minsk will be the first international destination that Pobeda opened after temporarily refusing to fly abroad. it was supposed to operate from March 5 to June 30.

Aeroflot bought eight aircraft from foreign lessors Business

In early March, the Federal Air Transport Agency recommended that airlines with foreign-leased aircraft stop flights abroad from March 6 and transportation from abroad to RUSSIA from March 8. The agency explained this measure by the fact that there is a high risk of aircraft arrest in other countries.

Due to Western sanctions against Russia against the background of the military operation in Ukraine, foreign lessors began to demand that Russian airlines return the planes.

In May, Aeroflot bought eight Airbus A330 aircraft from foreign leasing, and, together with Pobeda, switched to the Russian Sirena-Travel ticket booking system.

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