Less than two weeks after Russian airways made their triumphant return to Phuket, Aeroflot has introduced an increase in direct flights to the island. The flagship airline of Russia introduced yesterday that it might be including 14 new flights per week from Russia to Phuket.
Feast begin date of those new flights has not yet been confirmed, however the expansion will embody adding a third day by day flight from Moscow to Phuket, adding to the 14 flights per week already scheduled between the 2 cities. Aeroflot will also add twice-weekly flights from Russia’s third-largest metropolis Novosibirsk in addition to from the far-east port city of Vladivostock. The airline will also add three flights every week from Siberia’s second-largest metropolis, Krasnoyarsk, serving the over one million folks living there.
The Russian Consulate in Phuket posted on social media yesterday to announce the model new slate of flights, according to The Phuket News. They stated that the flights will launch sometime this month, but no precise dates were revealed.
“Aeroflot airline is growing the quantity of standard passenger flights to Phuket as a part of its winter schedule. This month, the service is planning to broaden its flight program, including [new flights] from Russian areas.”
The new flights will join the current schedule of flights from Russia, launched at the beginning of the month. Ikar Airlines flies from Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow to Phuket on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday every week, together with Aeroflot’s day by day flights. Siberia Airlines flies on Thursdays from Irkutsk in Siberia and on Mondays from Vladivostok and Novosibirsk.
The improve in flights has opened the floodgates of Russians pouring again into Phuket, quickly overtaking Indian tourists that were the principle demographic. Between May and September, Russian vacationer arrivals averaged about 3,200 to four,200 per month. Last month that number ballooned to 23,089.
So far this month, Russia has dwarfed different demographics arriving in Phuket. Russians doubled the variety of arrivals coming from India, the second greatest demographic, and more than tripled the third greatest demographic, Australia. Russians accounted for a quarter of all the eighty three,428 international arrivals to the island. The prime ten international locations with passengers travelling to Phuket are as follows::