Aeroflot has become customer-oriented?

[Josh Wilson]

Just to clarify - this is DRAFT legislation - ie, not law yet. 

 

It stands a decent chance of passing - it's getting fair coverage inside
Russia, but it has yet to be considered by the legislature or signed by the
president. Incidentally, reporting on Russian legislation in Russian tends
to discuss reality from the point of view of how it will change by the draft
legislation being reported on - so it sounds like the draft law is actually
already law unless you read very carefully. If any of you have advanced
students reading news or studying translation, this is an important quirk of
Russian. 

 

Should also mention that this will (under current wording) apply only to
citizens from 20 countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy,
France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Poland,
China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, the United States, Canada, and
Australia.

 

Also, just to chime in on the airline discussion - Aeroflot is actually very
decent in its service as well as the planes, pilots, and even food they
serve (as airlines go). Especially international flights are up to
international standards. There are a lot of smaller airlines flying domestic
routes inside Russia that I avoid (and I check the airplane info before
booking - I don't fly in Tupolevs, as they are wobbly enough to make sick).
However, Aeroflot itself has indeed made great improvements in recent years.


 

If you are nostalgic for bad product served badly, book with Transaero.
About 90% of Transaero flights I've taken have definitely been keeping the
old traditions alive. 

 

Best, 

 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org

 

 

 

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sarah Hurst
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 12:51 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Aeroflot has become customer-oriented?

 

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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