Vladimir, Since I live near Domodedovo (Domodedovskaya), I looked into BMI and Transaero. I went through Infinity Travel (www.infinity.ru) and booked a Moscow-London-Moscow flight on BMI for Nov. 6-18 since I couldn't get a cheap flight for the dates that I really wanted, which where Nov. 2-16.
While the rate BMI was asking for Nov. 6-18 was only 1000 rubles more than the Aeroflot, what they wanted for Nov. 2-16 was not 2000 rubles more, but 5000+ rubles more -- quite a big difference. When I found out about the Aeroflot deal, I seized the day and made another booking on Infinity, for Nov. 2-16. I got the dates that I wanted, which were more important to me than the convenience of trekking through Domodedovo. Besides, I've got a reliable professional taxi driver living right next door to me who's adept at getting me to Sheremetyevo on time. BTW, thanks for the tip about www.ticketonline.ru -- I'll have to check out this website. Kirill. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:05:37 +0400 > From: Vladimir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re[2]: Expat List Cheap airline tickets > To: The Moscow Expat List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Nothing bad to say about Aeroflot... However, they sell just to main > destinations in Europe and there are certain restrictions, also > tickets do go very fast on popular destinations like London, Paris or > Berlin. You have to return to Moscow by 15 Dec. > > For Moscow - London, booking in advance to fly from Domodedovo by > British Midland would have cost you just 2,000 rubles more (try > www.ticketonline.ru). And > considering that there is no express train to Sheremetievo from where > Aeroflot flies, that difference does not look very significant. > > All the best > > Vladimir > > Monday, October 22, 2007, 12:04:15 PM, you wrote: > > NH> Yes, he is. > > > NH> ----- Original Message ---- > NH> From: Anh Minh Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > NH> To: Kirill Galetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; The Moscow Expat List > <[email protected]> > NH> Sent: Sunday, 21 October, 2007 1:36:57 PM > NH> Subject: Re: Expat List Cheap airline tickets > > NH> Are you talking about Aeroflot? > > > NH> On 10/19/07, Kirill Galetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NH> Hi, > > NH> I don't mean to advertise, but I thought some of you might want to know > that a certain major Russian airline is having one of its periodic sales on > flights to sundry destinations in Russia and > NH> Europe, going on now through Tuesday, October 30. > > NH> I just booked a good rate for Moscow-London-Moscow with departure before > the upcoming three-day weekend (November 3-4-5) when all other airlines are > charging exhorbitant rates for this route for > NH> departures before or during these dates. > > NH> Kirill. _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
