Flydubai to launch daily flights to St Petersburg

Dubai-based airline, flydubai has announced the launch of daily flights to St Petersburg’s Pulkovo International Airport (LED), from January 20, 2023.

Flights to St Petersburg from Terminal 2 at Dubai International (DXB) are currently scheduled to be operated by Boeing MAX 8 aircraft. Flight FZ907 will depart Dubai at 5.30pm and arrival at 23.20pm, spanning a duration of six hours and fifty minutes. The return flight FZ 908 will depart St Petersburg at 12.20am and land in Dubai at 8am.

Return business class fares from DXB to LED start from Dhs8,500 and economy class lite fares commence at Dhs2,320. Return business class fares from LED to DXB start from RUB196,800 and economy class lite fares start from RUB37,825.

“[The year] 2022 has been a tremendous year for growth for flydubai. We have taken delivery of 18 new aircraft this year which has enabled us to continue to expand our network and add more capacity on some of our existing routes,” said Ghaith Al Ghaith, chief executive officer at flydubai. “We are confident this momentum will continue well into next year.”

The carrier first started its operations to Russia in 2010 with direct flights to Samara and Yekaterinburg. With the launch of the new service, flydubai will serve nine destinations in the market including Kazan (KZN), Makhachkala (MCX), Mineralnye Vody (MRV), Moscow (VKO), Novosibirsk (OVB), Samara (KUF), St Petersburg (LED), Ufa (UFA) and Yekaterinburg (SVX).

The carrier has grown its network to 114 destinations, most of which were not previously served with direct airlinks to the UAE, flydubai said in a statement.

The airline recently announced the launch of operations to six new routes in 2023, including flights to Cagliari in Sardinia, Corfu in Greece, Gan in the Maldives, Krabi and Pattaya in Thailand and Milan Bergamo in Italy.

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