Aeroflot identifies initial routes for new Krasnoyarsk international hub

Russia’s Aeroflot Group is intending to open its new international hub at Krasnoyarsk in June, after the expansion was delayed by over a year by the air transport crisis. Aeroflot’s board has decided that the hub will open on 1 June with a summer schedule including flights to Sochi, Krasnodar, Blagoveshchensk and Simferopol. Krasnoyarsk had previously been selected as a new hub for the group because it was a large city in a central location, about halfway between Moscow and Vladivostok. Aeroflot had intended to carry out first flights in March 2020 and build an initial fleet of eight aircraft for the hub, expanding to 12 aircraft by 2023 – by which time it intended to be transporting around 1 million passengers. The hub is part of an expansion and network-development strategy which includes opening new regional bases across the country.<br/>