The government will announce a tender before the end of the month to select an independent foreign consultant to develop a strategy to consolidate state assets in Moscow's airports. The government will announce a tender before the end of the month to select an independent foreign consultant to develop a strategy to consolidate state assets in Moscow's airports. The government intends to unite Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo...

The long-discussed merger of Moscow's three airports is back on the agenda after a Transportation Ministry working group drafted a document that stated consolidation could be the way to tackle strains on capacity and balance soaring reconstruction and expansion...

The director of a Moscow museum was detained at Domodedovo airport with a 17th-century icon worth $1 million, police said, but there was confusion over whether the man had been authorized to bring the icon into the country. The director of a Moscow museum was detained at Domodedovo airport with a 17th-century...

Co-owners of Vnukovo Airport could invest in the construction of a second runway at Domodedovo Airport in return for land at Domodedovo for the construction of a new passenger terminal and fueling facility. Co-owners of Vnukovo...

... of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner. Correction appended Russians headed to Japan are now able to enjoy the novelty of Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner. JAL Japan Airlines formally introduced the aircraft on its Tokyo to Moscow route at a ceremony at Domodedovo Airport on Thursday. "This is a historic day for Domodedovo," airport director Igor Borisov told reporters. "With this most modern aircraft I am sure more passengers will chose Domodedovo and JAL." Domodedovo has seen its long-held...

A manager for the Aeroexpress train service faces fraud charges after being caught taking a bribe in exchange for extending a shop's lease at Sheremetyevo Airport, police said. A manager for the Aeroexpress train service faces fraud charges after being caught taking a bribe in exchange for extending a shop's lease at Sheremetyevo Airport, police said. The employee, identified only as the company's top...

... Krasnoyarsk? A: The city has everything needed to set up manufacturing. We have energy, water supplies and transportation infrastructure. The city is a big transportation hub. The Trans-Siberian Railroad goes through Krasnoyarsk, we have an international airport, which is second after the Frankfurt airport in terms of cargo traffic volumes for Lufthansa. We believe that a number of other companies could use the Krasnoyarsk airport for their freight operations.  Q: Which industries could be potentially...

... third U.S. city to its nearly 100 destinations. Transaero has started offering twice-a-week flights from Moscow to Los Angeles, adding a third U.S. city to its nearly 100 destinations. Transaero is making the 12-hour, 15-minute flight from Domodedovo Airport to Los Angeles on Sundays and Thursdays using a Boeing 777 with 306 seats, the airline said Monday. Transaero, which already flies between Moscow and the U.S. cities of New York and Miami, has been rapidly expanding. Last month, it ordered four...

... complete by the end of 2012, while those on the northeast side (toward Dmitrovskoye Shosse) should open in April 2013, the Mayor’s press service said. Reconstruction work on Leningradskoye Shosse itself from the junction as far as Sheremetyevo Airport should be complete by the end of 2013. The plan includes widening the road on either side by adding bus lanes. The junction, where Leningradskoye Shosse crosses the ring road from Moscow into the town of Khimki, is notorious for delays and causing...

... up interest among potential buyers, the plane was carrying journalists, industry experts and a crew from Russia, France, Indonesia, Italy and the United States when it took off for its second flight of the day from Jakarta’s Halim Pedanakusuma Airport. Contact with the plane was lost 20 minutes later at 2:35 p.m. local time (11:35 a.m. in Moscow), moments after it requested permission, for an unknown reason, to descend from an altitude of 3,000 meters to 1,800 meters, RIA-Novosti reported....

... Murmansk. All-inclusive packages start at $22,790. The town of Kirovsk ( kirovsk-hibinogorsk.ru ), located about three hours south of Murmansk, is one of the best places to ski in the region. You can reach the town by flying into the nearby Apatity Airport or getting off at the Apatity Station, one of the stops on the train ride to Murmansk. From there, Kirovsk is a half hour, 500 ruble ($17) taxi ride away. The South Slope of Mount Aikuaivenchorr (+8 815-313-4614) has the best-kept and most beginner-friendly...

A Russian An-30 military jet caught fire at an airport in the Czech town of Chaslav, after the plane suffered a malfunction with its landing gear. No one was killed, but most of the passengers were injured. A Russian An-30 military jet caught fire at an airport in the Czech...

... members of the SkyTeam global airline alliance starting next week. The so-called Go Russia Pass goes on sale May 2 and allows travelers to purchase three to 16 flight coupons on flights originating outside Russia and passing through Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, SkyTeam said in a statement . Fares will be calculated on the number of kilometers flown nonstop and can amount to savings of 20 percent off standard prices, it said. "With the Russian economy continuing to perform strongly, the Go Russia...

... aircraft from the market," a source at Sukhoi told the paper. "When the plane flew toward the mountain it should have triggered an automatic mode that would have guided it away from the obstacle," a pilot safety official at Domodedovo airport told the tabloid. "At Jakarta airport there is a U.S. Air Force base. And among our staff there is talk — couldn't a signal have been sent from that base at a particular moment to put the equipment out of order?" It is not the...

... import costs. Bringing up either of these two constants of life on Kamchatka is sure to get you into a long discussion with any local. How to get there Aeroflot and Transaero both make the nine-hour flight between Moscow and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport (+7 4153-19-95-61; airport-pkc.ru ). A round-trip fare costs about 12,000 rubles in the winter and 42,000 rubles ($400 or $1,400) in the peak summer season. The airport is located 30 kilometers from the city. Take an hourlong bus ride to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky's...

... — smile benignly and ferret around for cards giving you a translation of the legends on the wall. And the dreaded queue systems... well... Not long after we moved over here, my sons (then 4 and 6) and I found ourselves in the old Sheremetyevo airport terminal, trying to check in for a flight. It was madness. There were no staff on the three desks assigned to our flight, the crush was getting tighter and tighter, and the minutes were ticking away until the plane was due to leave. Then, when...

... was my husband I couldn't stand." People have emigrated since the first humans walked out of Africa, but since the 1990s emigration has changed its nature. It's no longer forever. Nowadays, you get on a cheap flight, Skype your mother from the airport, and if you don't like the place, fly home again. That's why emigration is the right option for tens of millions today. About a fifth of young people in Western countries are unemployed. In Spain and Greece, about half are. They could stick around...

... according to Korobkin. "Plane tickets for traveling within Russia are also high," he added. Nonetheless, the number of tourists is steadily improving from the 2008-09 downturn. By the end of March, the number of international arrivals at Moscow's airports had grown 21 percent year on year, to 1.086 million, said Shpilko, the tourism and hospitality committee chairman. The average occupancy of Moscow's hotels as of April this year had increased 6 percent compared with the same period last year...

... raise its stake. Telenor says it bought the shares to return its ownership to the level it had been before VimpelCom merged with Wind Telecom. The commission also cleared Singapore firm Changi to buy blocking stakes in the Sochi, Anapa and Krasnodar airports from firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska. (MT)

Transaero will begin regular flights to Rome beginning June 27, the airline's chief executive Olga Pleshkova announced on her Twitter account Saturday, writing, "Received confirmation of schedule from airports in Italy)) 27.06 we start flights to Rome)) waiting for everyone)) flying from Vnukovo." The twice-daily Rome flights will be Transaero's first under a new deal between Russia and Italy that broke rival Aeroflot's long-held monopoly on routes...