Mineralnye Vody, about 550 miles south of Moscow, is a popular resort town in the Caucasus Mountains not far from separatist Chechnya and has been the scene of bus hijackings and bomb blasts in recent years.
The interior ministry apparently told Echo of Moscow radio station that passenger checks have been tightened and that police and security services are examining the luggage of all passengers arriving from the North Caucasian cities of Makhachkala, Nalchik,
Mineralnye Vody, Vladikavkaz and the republic of Ingushetia, according to Itar-Tass.
VTB and Aeroinvest, the management company of
Mineralnye Vody International Airport, on November 20 signed a cooperation agreement under which VTB will provide the airport with an RUB 2 billion credit line for a period of nine years.
Elsewhere, Flydubai started it's twice a week service to
Mineralnye Vody, its fifth destination in Russia.
The first Detsky Mir stores appeared in Biisk, Rubtsovsk, Arkhangelsk, Novy Urengoi, Bataisk, Dimitrovgrad, and
Mineralnye Vody.
In Russia, the carrier will launch flights to
Mineralnye Vody on April 16, 2013 followed by Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd on September 13, 2013.
Other business class routes starting in October include Mal, Istanbul,
Mineralnye Vody and Bucharest.
Asgarov said, "In addition to flights from Baku, we will also open international destinations from Ganja to
Mineralnye Vody and Antalya.
From Ekaterinburg it also will serve Sochi (daily), Anapa (five-times-weekly in June, six-times-weekly beginning in July),
Mineralnye Vody (twice-weekly), Krasnodar (twice-weekly) and Gelendzhik (thrice-weekly via Moscow Domodedovo).
Since last year, it has been operating four new Russian destinations of Krasnodar,
Mineralnye Vody, Rostov-on-Don and Volograd.
During the last four years, Russia has been a key market for flydubai with services to Samara, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Ufa, Krasnodar,
Mineralnye Vody, Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd but flying to the capital marks one of its most high-profile launches to date.
The carrier s new low-cost product will be available from 14th January, 2014, and it will present budget flights from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to numerous popular places, comprising services to Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, Vilnius, Milan, Rome, Tel Aviv, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Krasnodar,
Mineralnye Vody, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Stavropol, Tomsk, Ufa, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kiev, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Astana, Almaty, Karaganda, and Yerevan.
