Aeroflot has become customer-oriented?

[Sarah Hurst]

How about this news? Foreign visitors can now stay in Russia for three days
without a visa, on condition they buy a ticket with a Russian airline. Do
you dare?

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131103/184496440/Russia-72-Hour-Visa-Free-Transit-to-Boost-Domestic-Airline-Profits.html


On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Alexei Bogdanov <
alexei.bogdanov at colorado.edu> wrote:

> Let's not create another myth.  I grew up in an Aeroflot family (my mom
> and dad worked for Aeroflot),
> flying around the Soviet Union all the time in the 70s.  There was no
> clapping at landing but there were
> sweets all the time.   I first experienced that weird clapping at landing
> when I flew from Moscow to Warsaw in 1989, and the plane was Polish.
>
> Cheers,
> Alexei Bogdanov
> University of Colorado
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> On 11/2/2013 10:01 AM, LeBlanc, Ronald wrote:
> >
> > And I suppose we'll be told soon that the passengers no longer applaud
> wildly when the aircraft manages to land (not smoothly, of course, but just
> lands)?
> >
> > Ron
> >
> If anyone is nostalgic about the applause, just fly Al Italia, or for that
> matter, any flight filled with Italians...
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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