Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
While there are rumours, no LCC has *yet* announced a London-Russia route.
Don't want to veer off topic for too long, but unless the Russia-UK bilateral has been renegotiated recently, that's not going to happen. IIRC the bilateral is very restrictive both in terms of operators on LON-MOW (only two airlines can be designated on each side - and those are BA, bmi, Aeroflot and Transaero) and frequency. The LCCs would love to fly LON-MOW if they could - in addition to limited competition, they could legitimately fly overnight and push the aircraft utilisation up.