LETTER: Rouble routes
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr N. I. Barnes
Sir: Neil Taylor says of Russia: "the lack of public transport requires a taxi transfer to the airport". (Business Travel: "Former Soviet states seek solutions", 15 November)
In St Petersburg at the moment one can go to either of the airports by public transport (metro and bus) for a total of 1,000 roubles (pounds 1=7,000 roubles). If one does not fancy standing in a crowded bus, falling over one's own luggage (an extra 400 roubles per case) there is, every 20 minutes, a shuttle bus between the city centre and the international airport, costing 4,000 roubles (57p). I assume that something similar operates in Moscow.
Of those, admittedly few, agents I recently approached in London on this question, only Finnair was a help; it told me about the shuttle. Taxi fares can be extra-terrestrial: the art of milking the foreign business- visitor is well advanced.
Yours faithfully,
N. I. Barnes
London, NW8
16 November
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