RUSSIA’S ONE-WAY AIRLINE TICKETS ARE UP 27% AFTER MOBILIZATION

Tue 04 October 2022:

Flight ticketing data released on Tuesday by the Spanish company ForwardKeys, suggests that the amount of one-way tickets issued from Russia increased by 27% during the week that President Vladimir Putin announced the country’s first mobilization since World War Two on September 21.

Thousands of men of fighting age have fled Russia as a result of the mobilization of men to fight in Ukraine because they want to avoid a draft that was supposed to enlist those with military experience and specialties but frequently seemed unconcerned with service records, health, student status, and even age.

The data, which compared bookings from Sept. 21 to Sept. 27 to the week prior, shows the share of one-way tickets issued jumped to 73% the week of the announcement compared with 47% the previous week.

“These numbers are quite remarkable and correlate with reports at the time of a sudden increase in ticket sales,” said Olivier Ponti, ForwardKeys’ vice president of insights.

Sixty percent of tickets bought during the week of the announcement had departure dates within 15 days, up from 45% during the previous week. According to the company, the typical lead time to departure dropped from 34 to 22 days.

For the week ending September 27, one-way tickets from Russia to the cities of Tbilisi, Georgia; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Istanbul, Turkey; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, saw a triple-digit increase in air travel bookings, according to ForwardKeys.

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