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Last week, I highlighted the shortest of short commercial “bigger” jet flights within the U.S., so this week I wanted to test your international knowledge and see if you can guess which airlines (if any) and the departure and arrival cities (if any) that are commercially flown non-stop from the domestic U.S. to Russia. I’ll think you’ll be surprised … |
It turns out the only U.S. based airline with a non-stop to Russia is Delta and of course we couldn’t have the U.N. or Washington visits without flights on the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot
- Delta Flight #30 from New York (JFK Kennedy) to Moscow (SVO Sheremetyevo Airport)
- Delta Flight #46 from Atlanta to Moscow (SVO Sheremetyevo Airport)
- Aeroflot Flight #318 from Washington (IAD Dulles) to Moscow (SVO Sheremetyevo Airport)
- Aeroflot Flight #316 from New York (JFK Kennedy) to Moscow (SVO Sheremetyevo Airport)
- Aeroflot Flight #322 from Los Angeles (LAX) to Moscow (SVO Sheremetyevo Airport)
And for the one I am not really sure on, but it is in the world wide flight schedules ….
Air Moldova Flight #702 from Crooked Creek, Alaska (CKD) to Moscow (DME Domodedovo) on Sunday’s starting this month … the aircraft type is noted as a Tupolev 154 which is a Russian domestic jet — so something smells a bit fishy on this filed flight …
Update:
I overlooked Delta Flight #30 from New York (JFK Kennedy) to Moscow (SVO Sheremetyevo) in my original post, my apologies (thanks to the commentors for correction), I inserted into the list above.
Rick, you didn’t do your homework completely.
DL# 30 also flies from JFK to SVO.
And it’s Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo
The two airports are named after adjacent towns.
The town of Sheremetyevo is named after counts Sheremetyev, who (AFAIK) had their estate (and owned serfs) in the village. I believe this guy is one of them.
Comment by Palal — November 21, 2007 @ 2:09 am
might be worth noting that AA is launching service to Moscow from Chicago in June 2008.
Comment by aaflyer — November 21, 2007 @ 3:13 am
This article fails to mention that the ATL-SVO flight, which has only been operated a litle over a year, is not the only DL flight to SVO from the USA. DL took over ths NYC-SVO route from Pan Am decades ago and still operates it today as flight 30. For any years the flight stopped in Frankfurt.
Comment by Russ — November 21, 2007 @ 3:17 am
Comment by Rick Seaney — November 21, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Rick,
This is impossible, there must be an error in filing. Crooked Creek has a population of 137, it doesn’t have anything around and >90% of the population are native americans. Besides, that would be the first Tu-154 flight allowed to US. I bet it should be CKC instead of CKD. CKC is Cherkassy, quite big ukrainian city close to Moldova (you said Air Moldova operates the flight).
In general, air market between US and Russia is definitely under-served and you have to make connections in either Europe (Frankfurt, if you fly popular Lufthansa) or Asia (Seoul is the biggest trans-Pacific air hub). Currently besides publicly available flights there are also charters from US to the russian island of Sakhalin in west Pacific, where Shell and other companies drill oil wells and many americans and europeans live. There are rumors that new model of Tupolev “Tu-204″ jets will be admitted into US air space and Vladivostok Air will work commercially between VVO and Seattle in late 2008 but as for now — demand is high but market is, as I said, well underserved.
Regards.
Comment by Sergey — November 22, 2007 @ 12:41 am
Comment by Ryan — November 24, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
Alaska used to have flights to Magadan from Anchorage (I think the flights made other stops in the Russian Far East) for several years. And back in the early 90’s when Aeroflot was expanding its US route network, one of the 3-a-week SFO-ANC-SVO flights would fly via VVO.
Comment by Darkwater — December 1, 2007 @ 11:03 pm
New service American Airlines…. ORD/O’HARE TO SVO/MOSCOW STARTING THIS SUMMER.
Comment by scott b — April 10, 2008 @ 8:43 am