Kerch ferry barely cope with the flow of passengers in Crimea

Crimean mass media reported about the huge queues on the Kerch ferry crossing. And this in April, when the high season in the Crimea has not started yet.

Recall that the Ministry of transport is considering several options for terrestrial messages Crimea, bypassing Ukraine, and each includes a crossing over the Kerch Strait.

According to the Minister of transport Maxim Sokolov, "passenger railway will arrive in Anapa or Krymsk, where we will be ready to organize the delivery by bus to the port "Anapa" port "Caucasus", and further on catamarans "Rosmorport" and the ferries to the ports of the Crimea". Add: and then again on the bus to a place of rest.

Not the fact that many who take the risk to go in such a hard way, especially with children. And in any case, already now, according to GSK "Kerch ferry crossing", daily ferries make about 20 flights. From Kerch queue of passenger cars and trucks less than in port "Caucasus", more drive in the direction of the Crimea. A ferry operates from a lot of stress, its staff hope on the Russian side, which previously promised to smuggle in Crimea new ferry.

By rail or by car in Crimea in previous years came 80% of tourists. It is already clear that this season, the main method of delivery of tourists to the Crimea became aviation. But, with all the efforts, the Russian airline ready for summer to carry on the Peninsula, only 13% of those 3 million Russians who, in the version of Federal ministries and agencies, will go there to relax. To use the flights, declared by the air carrier for the season from 1 June to 30 September, will be able less than 400 thousand people.

The main volume of traffic in the Crimea, according to the current flight schedules, will be in Moscow and a group of "Aeroflot". The company announced a large-scale program: from 1 June from Moscow to Simferopol will be performed 8 of flights on the airplanes of the A320/321 with a capacity of 160 seats. The capacity can be increased at the expense of wide-body aircrafts, speak in "Aeroflot", adding that now download the Crimean flights close to 100%. Flights from Moscow to the Crimea is also planned in the group S7, Ural airlines, Red Wings, "Transaero", "VIM-Avia", "Yakutia" and "Yamal".

Daily to fly to Simferopol calculates and "UTair", but the carrier does not sell tickets to clarify the issue of taxation of the route: previously, he was international and not subject to VAT. Judging by the number of declared flights and types delivered on the route of the aircraft (information from websites and airline reservation systems, calculations ITAR-TASS), four months all carriers will be able to sell the passengers from Moscow with a total of about 312 thousand tickets at full load each of the Crimean flight.

About 43.5 thousand tourists can take in the Crimea of the Petersburg company "Russia" and "UTair". About 16.5 thousand people - Donavia from Rostov-on-don. Direct flights to Simferopol is in summer timetable of Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Cherepovets. In these cities account for about 22 thousand tickets. All airlines, including the Crimea to the flight schedule, ready to take out in the summer season about 394 thousand people, or about 13% of the total flow of tourists from Russia, scheduled for Crimea by the Russian authorities.

The most controversial sources in airlines called the proposals of the Ministry on formation of a new programme of subsidies directly in Simferopol. It is proposed to include 16 cities, scheduled passenger traffic - 200 thousand passengers during the summer season, financing from the Federal budget - 678,5 million rubles, and the price for a passenger - from 2,2 to 6.8 thousand rubles. "Where did the numbers of planarimage passenger traffic is not very clear - surprised one of the participants of the meeting. For example, 42 flights Ekaterinburg - Simferopol per week, 6 flights a day from where?". Now in the summer schedule of Ural airlines on the route only 3 flights a week.

In the list of proposals of the Ministry of transport subsidy - Surgut and Tyumen is a basic airport for the "UTair". But the airline said that fly from there directly to Simferopol is not planned. The proposed tariffs are not cost-driven"explained earlier, ITAR-TASS General Director of "UTair" Andrei Martirosov: "it is Impossible to perform transportation for the money. Loss-making in the two ends. And if VAT is...".

The representative of the company "AK bars Aero already opened a ticket to Simferopol from Kazan (twice per week for 50-chair-aircraft) and Nizhnekamsk (once a week), added that the question of subsidies remains open. "But even though the tickets are sold at market prices without subsidies, the interest is there," said the company.

The meeting noted that Rosaviatsia invited from carriers final calculations for passenger traffic and proposals for funding to the end of the week.

So, if the air in the Crimea in the summer season will reach only about 400 thousand tourists from the planned 3 million, then land routes through the Kerch Strait will get 2.6 million tourists. Despite the fact that during the whole year 2013 ferries on the crossing of the Kerch carried a total of approximately 964 thousand passengers in both directions.
/RATA-news/

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