“Another document concerns subsidizing low-cost air tickets for residents of the Far East.
The government is allocating additional 5 billion rubles to the Federal Air Transport Agency for this purpose, ”Mishustin said at a government meeting.
Residents of the region will be able to buy air tickets at a reduced rate to go on vacation, to visit relatives or for treatment in other regions.
The cost of air tickets for them will be from 8 thousand to just over 10 thousand rubles.
At the end of December, the Russian government allocated more than 4 billion rubles to subsidize flights around the country in 2020.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin called for "infrastructural stitching" of the vast territory of Russia and instructed to increase subsidies for regional air travel.