Lufthansa into Moscow’s third airport

Moscow’s third airport, Vnukovo, but much closer to the city centre than Domodedovo or Sheremetyevo (the home of Aeroflot) will have flights by Lufthansa from Frankfurt next summer.  The airline already flies to Domodedovo, which in recent times has expanded enormously in terms of airlines worldwide who use it as their gateway to the Russian capital, from Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Munich.

Moscow, with a population of 14.6m, constitutes the biggest metropolitan region in Europe ahead of Istanbul and London.  Of the major international airports serving Moscow, Vnukovo is the closest to the city centre.  It takes but 35 minutes to get there on the express train.  Additionally, the new Lufthansa destination offers good communications to the Kaluga industrial base, a centre of the automotive industry where a number of foreign companies have established assembly plants.

All in all, with the flights to Moscow-Vnukovo, Lufthansa will be laying on a total of 153 weekly connections between Germany and Russia to nine destinations.  Besides the flights to the two Moscow airports, the airline is flying to Nizhniy Novgorod, Perm, Samara, Kazan, St Petersburg, Rostov and Yekatarinburg. www.lufthansa.com

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