Greeceās Ellinair airline company has said it is ready to return at its own expense stranded passengers of Russian VIM-Avia that declared charter flights suspension due to the lack of floating assets, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said.
“The Greek airline company Ellinair has said it is ready to transport VIM-Avia charter flight passengers at its own expense,” the agency said.
On Tuesday, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Greek companies can join efforts to repatriate stranded customers of VIM-Avia. According to him, Greek companies are interested in bringing home Russian tourists who arrived in Greece for holidays on VIM-Avia planes. He said the Transport Ministry “will meet them half-way” in this.
On Monday, VIM-Avia, Russiaās tenth largest carrier, announced plans to suspend charter flights over its financial problems. Other Russian airlines may help perform the companyās flights to socially important destinations in the Far East.
The airline company obliged to transport more than 200,000 passengers before the end of this year.
Source: TASS
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