Originally Posted by FM
As you guys seem to have an excellent knowledge of what is happening in the skies of Russia, could you please give me a piece of advice about the best way to fly from Moscow to Kazan? I am a bit reluctant boarding Tatarstan Airlines Tu-154. Siberia Airlines seems to be an option as well (with 737s) but I do not really know what to expect. I am not sure Aeroflot is flying the route. Or there is still the option of flying Austrian via Vienna I guess.
Has anybody get a clue? Thanks in advance.
At the risk of taking the thread OT, I would probably go with Sibir on a 737, all else being equal. I have flown Tatarstan Airways on a Tu-134 and S7 on an A310 and Il-86 (charter, but international), and S7 was a better experience (though almost anything other than a Yak-40 is better than a Tu-134)--a real airline, more or less. One of my colleagues used to recall that his counterparties would prefer to leave a day early to go to Kazan by train (before S7 started flying the route with 737s, and possibly at all) instead of flying. That said, the Tu-154 isn't that bad, and they make up the majority of even S7's fleet. Both Tatarstan Airlines and S7 fly from DME, so airport isn't a consideration.