The Federal Antimonopoly Service agreed on the commercial policies of Aeroflot and S7

The Federal Antimonopoly Service has agreed the commercial policies of Aeroflot and S7. This will ensure transparency of pricing and increase the availability of air travel for citizens, the press service of the antimonopoly authority reported on January 22.

Russia's largest air carriers have described in their internal documents the principles of pricing for air tickets. This was preceded by joint work with the Ministry of Transport of Russia - the agencies sent a joint letter to the airlines with recommendations on the formation of the main provisions of commercial policies of carriers.

In the commercial policies sent to the FAS of Russia, Aeroflot and Siberia Airlines set out the approaches to determining the starting price for tickets and the rules for deviating from it. The airlines declared that the share of ticket sales below the economically justified fare will be at least 60%, and the share of tickets sold at the maximum fare will be less than 2.5%. In addition, each of the airlines has included in the commercial policies proactive preferential programs for certain categories of citizens.

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"The adoption of commercial policies is in the interests of both passengers and the airlines themselves. Transparent pricing will make economy class flights more affordable and affordable. At the same time, the approaches to pricing described in the document will allow carriers to prevent possible violations of antimonopoly legislation," said Maxim Shaskolsky, Head of the FAS of Russia.

The Service has agreed the editions of commercial policies submitted by the airlines. The corresponding documents were signed and accepted by Aeroflot and Siberia Airlines.

According to the agency, other Russian air carriers should follow the example of the companies.

Earlier, on January 13, FAS fined Alfa Bank for improper advertising campaign with "Yandex Food". It was reported that the joint advertising was distributed on the air of federal TV channels. The video contained attractive information for consumers about a 50% cashback when paying for an order in the Yandex service with any of the bank's cards.