"Aeroflot" began selling subsidized tickets to 23 destinations

"Aeroflot" has expanded the geography of subsidized flights to 23 destinations for 2025. This was reported in the press service of the company on December 17.

It will be possible to fly to Moscow and back from 11 cities (Anadyr, Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok, Magadan, Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Gorno-Altaisk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yakutsk, Ulan-Ude and Kaliningrad), and to Khabarovsk - from 6 cities. Tickets to St. Petersburg are sold from Irkutsk and Kaliningrad. There are also two directions to Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok.

In addition, there are special fares for subsidized transportation for privileged categories of citizens. Such categories include citizens under the age of 23, men over 60, women over 55, disabled people of group I of any age, disabled from childhood of group II and III, accompanying a disabled person of group I or a disabled child, large families.

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Earlier, on December 16, the Russian government said that from January 1 to July 1, 2025 in the Russian Federation will begin pilot sale of tickets via the Internet for some categories of citizens participating in the program of preferential air travel. These include young people under the age of 23, pensioners, disabled people and large families, as well as residents of regions in the Far Eastern Federal District and the Kaliningrad region.

In Russia, some passengers can save money on flights within the country under the air ticket subsidy program. For some destinations the trip will cost two or even three times cheaper than usual. All because the costs are partially covered by regional budgets. Subsidized air tickets are preferential airfares for certain categories of passengers.