pee, which airports it could be, excepting LPP?
Err... What the hack? There is in fact no other airport situated close enough to target St. Petersburg.
Theoretically very well located is Kouvola-Uitti, with 2000m runway and close to the St. Petersburg - Helsinki highway and railway line. That is, however, a strictly military airfield. Then there is Savonlinna airport, with very beautiful surroundings, but substantially further from Russia's population than LPP. Varkaus with a rwy long enough but not much else around. The biggest in the region, Kuopio-Siilinjärvi, has an excellent runway 2800 m long and some population nearby, but it's located already over 400 km from St. Petersburg. Finally Joensuu, closer to the border but still too far from St. Petersburg. Anything more towards North (Kajaani, Kuusamo) has practically no catchment area across the border. The "plans" look like a bluff, unfortunately.
Targeting Russians? Look at the
eastern part of Germany, the former GDR. Remember how many Soviet troops were stationed there? To harness any remaining sentiments, creating a W-pattern route
base-SXF-LPP-SXF-base would be a brilliant idea.
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