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International low-cost airlines Ryanair, EasyJet and Wizzair have submitted bids for 33 destinations out of St Petersburg airport Pulkovo as of 2020, which would require that the airport complies with the Open Skies regime, Vedomosti daily and RBC business portal reported on September 24.
Currently Russia establishes flight routes through bilateral agreements with country separately, which allows for an airline from a respective country to fly to Russia, without access to third-party destinations.
The Open Skies regime would allow any airline to fly to any destination, regardless of its registration country.
Analysts surveyed by Vedomosti estimated that Europe's three largest low-cost airlines could add 5.9mn passengers to Pulkovo's turnover by 2025 (0.5mn passengers to/from Germany and France, 0.38mn from UK, 0.35mn from Italy, and 0.34mn from Spain).
Should international low-cost companies be allowed to operate in Russia, Rossiya and Pobeda airlines, subsidiaries of national air carrier Aeroflot, would be affected the most.
As reported by bne IntelliNews, Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has recently argued that Pobeda should give up international routes and focus on domestic destinations to bring domestic flight prices down, possibly with Aeroflot losing control of the company.
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