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26 June 2017, 19:21

Russian low-cost air carrier Pobeda eager to enable Moscow-Gomel air service

MINSK, 26 June (BelTA) – The Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry is processing an application of the low-cost air carrier Pobeda, which is eager to offer air service between Moscow and Gomel, BelTA learned from Belarusian Transport and Communications Minister Anatoly Sivak.

Pobeda is a daughter enterprise of the Russian air carrier Aeroflot. “We hope the company will make these flights possible,” said the official.

According to the minister, the Transport and Communications Ministry has no objections to low-cost air service. “As far as Pobeda's attempts to fly to Minsk are concerned, they wanted us to actually pay for these flights. The Zhukovsky Airport and the Palanga Airport now pay us like that so that Belavia would fly there,” said Anatoly Sivak.

“We make no barriers for low-cost airlines. We would be pleased to welcome air carriers willing to offer low-cost air service in Grodno or some other oblast capital. But economy disallows flights from Grodno to, let's say, Paris for now. There are too few passengers for that,” said Anatoly Sivak.

Asked about the possibility of air service between destinations inside Belarus, the minister explained it would not be profitable taking into account the development of transportation by road and by rail. “Such domestic flights are subsidized in other countries,” he noted.

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