http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9360/

The Irish low-cost air company of Ryanair announced opening of a new air service to Dusseldorf from the Finnish border town of Lappeenranta. They will begin with two flights a week. Lappeenranta is situated in 25 km from the Russian border and in 210 km from St. Petersburg. According to the experts, the service is focused on the Russian passengers. The tickets for the first flights are already available on the air carrier’s web-site. Minimal declared cost of the ticket is 27 euro for a roundtrip ticket. Transporting of one place baggage costs 15 euro, paying with Visa and Mastercard increases the cost in 10 more euro. All in all, the value of flight with all the payments for one passenger with a suitcase will amount to about 67 euro, or 3, 000 rubles. A bus ticket St. Petersburg – Lappeenranta costs 500 rubles (about 11 euro). Moreover, the high-speed train service St. Petersburg – Helsinki, which begins functioning in 2010, is supposed to stop over in Lappeenranta. The railway journey from St. Petersburg to Lappeenranta costs now 1200 rubles. Anyway, getting to Dusseldorf from St. Petersburg using this flight from Lappeenranta, including all the extra charges you would pay a half-price in comparison with a direct flight St. Petersburg – Dusseldorf. This offer can be useful not only for the people flying from St. Petersburg, but for the foreigners who wants to visit the second capital of Russia. We offer you to buy the train tickets for all routes within Russia, the CIS and beyond.