354 flights were cancelled or delayed at Moscow and St. Petersburg airports.
Hundreds of passengers are stuck at Moscow and St. Petersburg airports, which have been closed due to the threat of drone attacks. The collapse has been going on for the second day, since July 5.
Videos of overcrowded airports are being published online.
The published footage shows the crush in waiting rooms and on escalators, as well as the disappointed faces of Russians who are unable to use air transport.
According to official information from the Russian Ministry of Transport, as of Sunday evening, July 6, 354 flights were cancelled or delayed at Moscow and St. Petersburg airports.
In the capital's Sheremetyevo airport alone, 174 flights were cancelled, 80% of which were Aeroflot group airlines, Rosaviatsia reported, adding that another 47 flights were delayed by more than two hours.
Passengers on at least three Aeroflot flights have been waiting for departure since yesterday, reports Ostorozhno Novosti.
Aeroflot flight SU1005 Kaliningrad – Sheremetyevo, which was supposed to depart yesterday at 16:35, was cancelled after almost ten hours of waiting, without providing passengers with food, water or a hotel.
Flight SU1029 from Mineralnye Vody to Sheremetyevo is delayed for more than 15 hours. Passengers were accommodated in a hotel only at 1 am.
The same fate befell Aeroflot flight SU1947 from Almaty to Sheremetyevo, scheduled for Saturday at 17:10. After multiple postponements, the departure was scheduled for July 6 at 22:00.
At St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, 11 flights were cancelled and another 60 were delayed, Fontanka reports.
Waiting rooms are overcrowded, people are forced to lie and sit on the floor. Also, almost 90 flights that were supposed to arrive at the St. Petersburg airport have been postponed, 17 have been cancelled.
There were also flight delays and cancellations at other Russian airports, including Ivanovo, Kaluga, Pskov and Tambov.
Let us recall that on July 4, the Moscow and Rostov regions of the Russian Federation were attacked by drones.
