Departures from Russia recorded a significant increase after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of the reserve forces and those with experience in fighting to participate in the war on Ukraine.
The Flight Radar website, which specializes in tracking flights, published a video clip showing the unusual movement of flights departing from Moscow and St. Petersburg, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of 300,000 reserve soldiers.
The website said that "tickets for international flights departing from Russia were either sold out or their prices increased significantly after Putin announced the mobilization of reservists."
data and numbers
The tracking video, which got more than 6.5 million views, shows the torrent of aircraft departing from Russia compared to the planes coming to it, according to what was monitored by the Sanad Verification and Monitoring Unit in the Al-Jazeera network.
The site indicated that the prices of airline tickets to leave Russia have increased, and the available seats have become very few, and some flights have used European airspace, where non-Russian airlines are allowed to cross the airspace of the European Union to and from Russia, according to "Flight Radar".
According to the French "Capital" website, the statistics tool of "Google Trends" shows the most searched words for Russians on Google, namely "tickets" and "airplane".
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The @AP is reporting international flights departing Russia have either sold out or skyrocketed in price after Putin announced a mobilization of reservists.
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— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) September 21, 2022
The numbers show that the search for these two words has multiplied many times since six o'clock GMT yesterday, Wednesday, when the televised recording of Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing the partial mobilization of reserve soldiers was broadcast.
According to the same source, the search for "leave Russia" in Google increased 100 times during Wednesday morning compared to normal days.
Most of the searches for leaving Russia are focused on the Belgorod region, which is adjacent to the northeastern border of Ukraine, due to its exposure to Ukrainian bombardment.
Tickets and details
As for the details of ticket sales, direct flights to destinations closest to Russia top the sales, including tickets to Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan or even Kazakhstan, according to Aviasales, which is very popular in Russia to buy tickets.
As for tickets with Turkish Airlines in the direction of the Turkish city of Istanbul - which since Western sanctions and the closure of European airspace has become one of the main means of exit from the country by plane - until last Saturday, there are no flights available.
The European Union, Canada and other countries banned Russian flights from their airspace due to Russia's war on Ukraine, with the exception of flights operated by non-Russian airlines, and Moscow responded in kind to those countries.
And on Serbian airlines, flights to Belgrade are not available until Monday, September 26, and domestic flights to cities near the Russian border recorded an increase in prices, such as flights from Moscow to Vladikavkaz, whose ticket price is 750 dollars, compared to about 70 dollars in the past. .