После прекращения трудовой деятельности по age man put deserved rest. However, the material support of the majority of pensioners in Russia is so low that the elderly live practically below the poverty line, what can we say about travel or air travel. At the same time, pensioners and some other categories of citizens may receive benefits on air travel.
The essence of the proposal of air carriers
To help low-income peopleairlines like Yamal, Aeroflot, Russia, Ikar, Siberia today offer cheap air tickets for pensioners. This is an opportunity to purchase travel documents for a plane with good discounts.
All data about the benefits of airlines are placed onofficial sites. The cost is reduced, as a rule, by 10-30% of the original price. When making a purchase, the customer must put a mark about their social status and purchase a ticket already with a discount. Before purchasing a travel document, you must study all the conditions of the discount offer on the airline's website. In the process of check-in at the airport, you must show the pensioner's certificate, which is the reason for receiving the discount.
Federal preferential program
State preferential program, whichfunded by the government, distributed to residents of the Far Eastern region and retirees. The essence of the state program lies in the fact that air tickets for the Far East, pensioners are provided with a significant discount on flights to cities or across the region. The discount amount is 50% of the initial cost of the ticket. Considering the high prices for flights from this region, many residents positively evaluated these benefits from the state and are actively using discounts.
The only minus of the state preferential program is to limit flights for the season. Preferential fares for retirees are available only in summer.
Possibilities of certain categories of persons
Отдельные условия предоставлены pensioners with disabilities of the first and second groups, who were sent for treatment in one of the sanatoriums of the Russian Federation. The state reimburses the full cost of travel to the place of sanatorium-resort treatment and back. Working pensioners who have a third-group disability, as well as citizens accompanying them, receive a half-way discount. Benefit can be used only once a year.
Чтобы получить информацию о скидках и приобрести ticket, you must personally contact the office of the airline. The ticket is purchased by the client at full price, and after the Social Welfare Center compensates the beneficiary for travel costs. For compensation, you must present a certificate of the disabled person.
Additions to the general rules
Today, many airlines operate on the market,which offer customers to reduce the cost of the flight by reducing the comfort provided. Cheap flights carry loukoster (other name - discounters or low cost airlines). When buying such tickets, the discount can be up to 30% of the initial cost. Reduced prices apply both to flights abroad and to domestic flights. In the list of flights that perform low-cost airlines, you can find travel to international resorts, to the capital of European countries and cultural centers.
Low cost airlines, as already mentioned, reduce the cost of the flight by reducing the comfort of passengers. So, you can list the following disadvantages of cheap flights:
- baggage is not included in the ticket price, sometimes it is allowed to carry only hand luggage or small bags;
- during the flight the passenger is deprived of good service from the company; dinners in low-cost airlines, as a rule, are not provided;
- A cheap ticket cannot be returned or exchanged for another date.
Conditions for obtaining discounts on flights
Get reliable information about whetherpensioners the opportunity to use the benefits from the state when planning flights, you can on the official websites of airlines and the state program. To date, lists of regions have been compiled, older people who can take advantage of these benefits.
Так, льготы пенсионерам на авиабилеты действуют for men after 60 years and for women after 55. Disabled people of the first group, disabled children of the second group, disabled people of the third group and people accompanying them can also take advantage of this opportunity. At the same time, a person applying for a preferential flight must be registered in one of the following regions:
- Transbaikalia;
- Far North;
- Kaliningrad region;
- Far Eastern region.
Since the state pays the cost of the flightfrom the budget, then the flight directions are limited. As a rule, flights between subsidized regions, to Moscow, and also to St. Petersburg are permissible. Discounts are valid from April 1 to October 31.
The procedure for buying cheap air tickets
To have time to buy a ticket at a discount price,it is necessary to make a reservation and purchase a week, two or even three weeks before the planned flight, as the offer is limited by quotas. Air tickets for pensioners at discounted prices are sold in limited quantities, and their number is usually no more than 8-10% of the total number of available seats on the flight.
The rule of the day off is also valid for the purchase -This is a discount that appears if you include the night from Saturday to Sunday on your dates in another city or country. Here it is important to bear in mind that Russian concessions to pensioners do not apply to the cost of international flights.
In some airlines buy a ticket forA reduced rate can also be used if a long stay (more than a month) at the destination is planned. Buying a ticket in both directions, you can save about 35% of the original cost. But a ticket with an open date for all carriers is more expensive.
Если льготных тарифов на необходимые даты нет, то It is worth checking the discounts of other airlines, possibly changing the date of departure. When purchasing a ticket at a discount, you also need to make sure that this is the final price, which includes all taxes and fees.
Cheap flights have another uncomfortableProperty is a significant loss on return. To prevent financial losses, you must plan your flight in advance. Also cheap tickets are not booked for long periods of time. The maximum booking period is usually no more than 72 hours.
If connecting flights are planned during the flight, it is necessary to specify the time of landing and departure in order to have a minimum period of time for transfer.
Maximum cost of flight for benefits
At the moment for each flight ticket pricelimited and depends on the length of the airway. With long flights, the price can not exceed 12 thousand rubles, for short distances - no higher than 4.5 thousand rubles. For example, a round-trip flight from Kaliningrad to St. Petersburg or to the capital will cost about 3 thousand rubles. Discount on the purchase of a travel document can go up to 50%.
For veterans of the Great Patriotic War and other special categoriesCitizens there are 50% discounts on flights. In addition, once a year, you can use the right to free flight to the place of treatment and back, if you cannot reach the place of treatment by other transport. Preferential air tickets for pensioners are offered in limited quantities. Book or buy them to be long before the trip.
Additional discounts from carriers
During the purchase of tickets you need to check withairlines on the availability of additional discounts for pensioners on the air ticket. Very frequency carriers carry out promotions in order to attract passengers. Promotions may be relevant for a specific route or for a specific period. To buy a ticket cheaper, you will need to agree with the existing restrictions, which may be the following:
- no luggage (except for carry-on baggage);
- lack of power in the aircraft;
- the inability to change the purchased ticket for another date;
- in case of returning the ticket to the client from the airline, its incomplete cost is returned.
Самые выгодные предложения для ветеранов ВОВ valid in May. The action allows you to perform free flights in any direction, leaving the same amount of prices with benefits for air tickets to pensioners. 2017 in terms of the cost of tickets remains the same as the previous ones.
