Nearly a thousand of Russian tourists, who still remain in Turkey waiting for planes to bring them home, will leave for home today, press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport said.
According to the ministry, more than 20 Russian and foreign flights took tourists from Turkey on October 1. On Saturday, VIM Airlines served 3,300 passengers, including about 2,000 - from Turkey. On September 30, VIM Airline’s 5,700 passengers were transported.
Russia’s tenth largest carrier announced on September 25 that it was stopping all charter flight operations due to financial problems and shortage of the working capital. The announcement was preceded by a series of flight delays in Russian and foreign airports.
The air carrier obliged to transport more than 200,000 passengers before the end of this year.
