The World Cup in Russia will bring not only joy to the inhabitants of the country, but also a lot of problems. One of them was a significant rise in price of air tickets. All-Russian association of passengers has studied the prices for flights to the cities, where football matches will be held. The date of the flight was set the day before the game, the return flight was assigned (to Moscow) for the next day after the game. Most of all jumped in the price of tickets to Saransk.
The cost of the road there and back was 37. 812 rubles. This is 553.9% more than usual. The least prices rose for air travel in Sochi. Only by 139%. Deputy chairman of the All-Russian Association of Passengers, Ilya Zotov, believes that the price has increased due to the high demand for tickets and the company wants to get rich on the fans. "It is necessary to take into account the fact that the high price for tickets can be caused by the great demand and limited supply," RT quotes him. At the same time, Rosaviatsia warned that it was prohibited to raise prices unreasonably by federal law, but organizations did not care about it. FIFA World Cup 2018. will be held in 11 cities of Russia from June 14 to July 15.