Russian metasearch engine for airline tickets Aviasales has calculated which Russian airlines provided the most affordable services throughout 2019 for domestic and international flights. These ratings, both published in our post, will help you choose an airline for travel to a Russian city or find the cheapest airline to Russia from your country.
How They Calculated
Aviasales took a mathematically and methodologically very simple approach:
a) selected a point of reference, which was Moscow;
b) selected the most popular routes from Moscow;
c) checked the real fares which passengers paid;
d) calculated average fare for each airline to get the most budget airlines in Russia.
The Best Airlines To Travel Within Russia
To find airlines with the lowest fares within Russia, Aviasales took the following cities: Sochi, Simferopol, St. Petersburg, Makhachkala, Mineral’nye vody, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan’, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Ufa, Samara, and Vladikavkaz.
| Airline | Average fare (in rubles) |
| Pobeda | 6,665 |
| Nordavia | 6,669 |
| RusLine | 7,274 |
| Red Wings | 7,664 |
| Nordwind | 7,850 |
| Yakutia | 8,170 |
| Russia Airlines (Rossiya) | 8,441 |
| Ural Airlines | 8,582 |
| UTair | 8,650 |
| S7 | 10,153 |
| Azimut | 10,374 |
| Globus | 10,507 |
| Aeroflot | 10,907 |
The Best Russian Airlines To Travel To Russia
Of international destinations the following ones were chosen: Tivat, Yerevan, Munich, Istanbul, Antalya, Barcelona, Rome, Berlin, Milan, Riga, Larnaca, and Dubai.
| Airline | Average fare (in rubles) |
| Pobeda | 15,919 |
| Russia Airlines (Rossiya) | 16,505 |
| Red Wings | 18,044 |
| UTair | 18,523 |
| Nordwind | 20,025 |
| Ural Airlines | 22,137 |
| S7 | 26,607 |
| Aeroflot | 27,067 |
Don’t forget that new opportunities to fly cheap to St. Petersburg have been emerging over last months with low-cost carriers starting flights to St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport.