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Photo taken by: Fabian Schmittner
Route: St. Petersburg (LED) - Frankfurt (FRA), 7 May 2006
Ticket price:
Flight duration: 2h 40m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Tupolev Tu-145
Meal: Lunch - Hot gulash with beands, onions and noodels.
Pices of bread, a choise of salami, cheese and butter olives,
Vanillia muffin
Drink: Nevskoe Beer, Tomao juice
Comments: It tasted better than it looked!
Great Airline and great service for such a short flight!
Forget all your prejudices against russian airines! Pulkovo is really O.K.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
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Photo taken by: Fabian Schmittner
Route: Frankfurt (FRA) - St. Petersburg (LED), 27 Apr 2006
Ticket price:
Flight duration: 2h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Tupolev Tu-145
Meal: Lunch - Hot Pelmeni (russian pasta pockets filled ith weaht and vegetables)
and onions,
cold Shrimp salad,
Sandwich bread and Brie cheese
Mandarine cockie
Drink: Nevskoe Beer
Comments: The "Pelmeni" have been a little bit dry without any sauce
or dip :( ... but nevertheless great lunch and service for such a normal flight!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5
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Photo taken by: Ismail N Efendiyev
Route: Baku (GYD) - Sankt Peterburg (LED), 28 Nov 2005
Ticket price: 580 $ (return)
Flight duration: 3h 50m
Class: business
Aircraft: Tupolev-154M
Meal: Lunch - Bread, cheese, butter, red caviar, salmon, cake, rice, meat,
vegetables, fruit
Drink: orange juice, beer, tea
Comments:
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5
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Photo taken by: David-Emil Wickström
Route: LED (St. Petersburg) - SXF (Berlin-Schönefeld), 29 Sep 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2h 10m
Class: economy
Aircraft: TU-154M
Meal: Breakfast - Smoked salmon, salami, cheese, cherry tomato, 2 black
olives, kapusta (cabbage), 2 not too fresh rolls, muffin filled with jam,
butter
Drink: Multivitamin juice and tea (light alcoholic beverages also available)
Comments: Pulkovo still serves a nice full meal on their international
flights. This seems to be their standard breakfast (and also main meal
when served without a warm dish). They also serve alcohol free of charge,
however the wines they serve are horrible - but good beer (since the flight
was at 8am I however opted for juice).
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
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Photo taken by: Eugene Soukharnikov
Route: Paris (CDG) - St. Petersburg (LED) , 14 Nov 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2h 45m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Tupolev Tu-154
Meal: lunch - main - Seafood salad
Shrimp with Lemon
Boeuf Bourguignon Piperade
Roasted potatoes
Brie
French roll (crisp and delicious)
President butter
Crumb cake
Coffee/tea, mineral water, lemonade, soft drinks, beer (Nevskoe, delicious),
red wine (Merlot) from Bordeaux, white (Sauvignon Blanc) and Alsatian
Riesling.
Drink: Beer (Nevskoe)
Comments:
A superb meal, chunks of soft, fragrant beef stewed in Burgundy wine with
peppers and delicious roasted potatoes. Salad was outstanding too. Cheese
– well, I like brie at any time, but here it complimented the
main course just perfectly. This is an excellent lunch for economy class
on an intra-European route, served by friendly Pulkovo cabin crew. Wine
– did not try their wine this time although normally I drink
wine in France (on the ground or stick with mineral water). Beer –
delicious, cold St. Petersburg brewed Nevskoe, I had like six or seven
cans during the flight. No full bar service but people who wish to have
cognac or whisk/e/y in flight (I am not one of them) can buy hard liquor
duty free. Flying with Pulkovo is an enjoyable experience. Unfortunately
I can’t it higher than 10 (10 for economy class food, 10 for
beverages, 10 for service).
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
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Photo taken by: Eugene Soukharnikov
Route: St. Petersburg (LED) - Paris, Charles de Gaulle (CDG),
5 Dec 2004
Ticket price: EUR 330 round trip / no discounts
Flight duration: 2h 45m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Tupolev Tu 154
Meal: lunch - main - appetizer:
sliced Danish-style salami
Oilve (a single one, just one, what a pity!)
butter
excellent Russian cheese
wholegrain roll
main course:
pork and beef rissole
macaroni in gravy,
green peas and corn
Russian rye bread
desert:
Magdalenas (Spanish tea cake)
tea, coffee,
also juices, soft drinks, mineral water, beer, red wine, white table wine
Drink: red wine
Comments: The food was not that bad but could have been even better. The
risolle or what the Germans call die Frikadelle is to Russian (rublenaia
or minced) kotleta, and like for Germans it is somewhat of a culinary
staple - ground beef and pork, with mild spices, formed into patty and
either friend or grilled. The macaroni it was served with were bland.
Nothing spectacular but still better than what most other European airlines
serve on their flights. When it comes to beverages Pulkovo is generous
– as this picture testifies – three cups of red wine
right away just because I hinted I’d like more wine with my
meal, and wine kept flowing until the landing . The wine, Bordeaux (Appelation
Bordeaux Controlee, 2001), table wine, I think it was Chateau Le Perrier,
was very fruity and dry – good stuff. They also had some merlot.
I didn’t try the white wine. No beer this time. Would have given
it 10 but that would do injustice to their other flights.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.5
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Photo taken by: Eugene Soukharnikov
Route: Paris (CDG) - St. Petersburg (LED) , 21 Oct 2004
Ticket price: EURO 320 round trip - standard fare
Flight duration: 2h 45m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Tupolev Tu-154
Meal: lunch - main - Mixed salad
Shrimp with lemon
boeuf bourguignonne
with stewed carrots and potatos
French President butter
Brie
Pastry
Coffee, tea, mineral water, juices, soft drinks, beer, red wine, white
wine (full bar service is unavailable, see notes)
Drink: decent red Bordeaux wine with the meal, beer (Baltika) during the
flight
Comments: Pulkovo flights from Paris to St. Pete have better food than
the meals served during flights from Russia’s Northern capital
to the capital of France. The reason for that is that they get their food
in Russia for Paris-bound flight but restock again in Paris for the return
flight, and the French food, meal, catering company they use in Paris is excellent.
The meal itself is a delicious experience. In the city of St. Petersburg
you would actually have to go out to a French restaurant and pay good
money to eat like that. In either case Pulkovo’s economy class
food, either to or from Paris, is outstanding by today’s standards
of intra European flights (although I must admit that Air France food
and service is not worse, it is one of very few airlines that is actually
a joy to dine with albeit like Lufthansa they recently started cutting
corners and on some flights are using too much pasta and other kind not
descript carbohydrate stuff). Beverage choice aboard is limited to soft
drinks and semingly unlimited supply of wine and beer, but if you want
hard liquor, cognac or whisk/e/y, you have to buy yourself a bottle or
two from their duty free stocks (I guess the quantity depends on one’s
thirst and finances although cognac both in Russia and on Pulkovo Paris
flights costs fraction of what it costs on the ground in St. Petersburg).
You can buy a small 0.25 l or a half liter bottle (if you can’t
manage the real bigger thing). Although beer and wine are complimentary
as are juices and soft drinks Pulkovo does not have full bar service in
the economy class (on these flights); the cabin crew does not mind if
you drink their duty free stocks empty and would even bring plastic cups.
Very nice of them.
On this daily St. Petersburg to Paris and Paris to St. Petersburg flight
the cabin crew speak Russian and French, which is fantastic (not the hatefully
generic “international” English, although in the unfortunate
case if you understand neither of these great languages, that’s
bad for you of course, flight attendants can also communicate in generic
English). The cabin crew is attentive, friendly and take care of their
passengers. 10 out of 10 considering the kind of food they serve, generous
portions, friendliness and the fact that the flight is relatively short
for this kind of inflight service.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
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Photo taken by: Eugene Soukharnikov
Route: Moscow (SVO) - St. Petersburg (LED) , 29 Jun 2002
Ticket price: RUR 3300 one way
Flight duration: 1h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: Tupolev Tu-154
Meal: lunch - appetizer - seafood plate (could have chosen something else)
of
smoked sturgeon
smoked turbot
lightly smoked trout
green salad
cured olives
cheese:
brie
emmentaler
smoked ham
wheat roll
rye bread
butter
chocolate cookes
chocolate
tea/coffee/any other kind of beverage
Drink: Beer (Bochkarev) but could have anything else - juices, mineral
water, wine, brandy
Comments: Impressive snack or light lunch (incredibly impressive for seafood
and smoked fish lovers) served on this 45 minute flight (barely had enough
time to eat it all). Delicious cold beer or anything else you want. Wide,
comfortable seats in business class. Excellent service. Pulkovo’s
St. Petersburg to Moscow economy class is outstanding too but I couldn’t
get seat on that flight because the plane was full, so I bought (the last)
business class ticket. Considering this flight’s duration, this
is certain 10 out of 10 for food, beverages and service.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
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Photo taken by: Daniel Atkinson
Route: St Petersburg (LED) to London Gatwick (LGW), 1 Jun 2005
Ticket price: £240 (return)
Flight duration: 3 hours
Aircraft type & class: Tupolev Tu-154M, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Beef in gravy with rice and kidney beans for main
course; bread roll and two slices of bread; cheese, salami slices and
an olive; fairy cake with cream centre
Drink: Choice of soft drinks, beer and wine prior to the meal (I chose
beer, which was the local Nevskoye variety from St Petersburg) and a choice
of tea or coffee during the meal
Comments: The meat was bland, even with extra salt added, although the
consistency was fine. It wasn't entirely clear what to do with the bread
and the cheese/salami box, so I used them to make couple of sandwiches,
which were very tasty. The fairy cake was also enjoyable, with the surprise
of a cream centre. As for drinks I was impressed that the beer provided
was in a full sized 330ml can, rather than the mini-cans found on some
airlines. Service was friendly, and the planes seem quiet heavily staffed
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
Camera brand & type: Canon Powershot A70
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Photo taken by: Antti Tiainen
Route: St. Petersburg (LED) - Baku (BAK), 2 Aug 2004
Ticket price: 148 EUR
Flight duration: 3h 25min
Aircraft type & class: Ilyushin-86
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: breakfast
Beef with rice and vegetables, slices of ham,
tomato, salmon, one bread roll and some darker bread, a muffin.
Drink: Nevskoye beer. Wine was also available.
Comments: The food was quite good. The service was surprisingly
good for
an internal CIS flight although the crew spoke and understood only
Russian.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
Camera brand & type: Olympus Camedia D-395
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Photo taken by: Moritz Herrmann
Route: Moscow Sheremetyevo (SV) - St. Petersburg (LED),
8 Jul 2004
Ticket price: USD 100.- incl taxes
Flight duration: 1 hr 50 mins
Aircraft type & class: Tupolev 154B-2, Economy Class
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: drink
1 chocolate bar
Drink: 1 tea
Comments: drink service, before main meal
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5
Camera brand & type: Nikon D100, 24mm 2.8f
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Photo taken by: Eugene Suharnikov
Route: St. Petersburg to Frankfurt, April 2003
Ticket price: 9000 roubles
Flight duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Tupolev Tu-154M, Economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Drink: I had a few beers throughout the flight, and some
red wine with the main course.
Comments: Pulkovo or Pulkovo Airlines is a Russian regional
airline. They are excellent. Unfortunately many factors such as Russian
visa policies restrict their growth otherwise this is an absolutely fantastic
small airline. Service is outstanding, extra friendly by any standard.
During that two and a half hour flight to Frankfurt they served a choice
of beverages (anything you want), three course meal (they actually serve
three different trays). No one else serves meals of this size and variety
on internal European flights.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10. Would grade them
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Photo taken by: Eugene Suharnikov
Route: St. Petersburg to Frankfurt, date April 2003:
Ticket price: 9000 roubles
Flight duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Tupolev Tu-154M, Economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: lunch
1 st course salad with salmon, cold cuts, olives, cherry tomatoes,
cheese;
2 nd course ostewed beef and noodles with cream sauce, black rye Russian
bread, wheat rolls, butter, desert apple crumb cake, meringues,
chocolate, Riesling, red wine with beef, Russian Bochkarev lager beer,
tea, coffee, soft drinks. They served tea and coffee just before landing.
Stewardess came four or five times during the flight and asked if you
want more beer or anything else?
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Photo taken by: T.Gierse
Route: St.Petersburg-Düsseldorf, 19 Oct 2003
Ticket price: pp
Flight duration: 2.30
Aircraft type & class: Tupolev 154M, Y
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: Breakfast/Lunch
Contens of the meal: Salmon, Pork with noodles, ham and sausage with tomatoes
and olives, small cake and bread,
Drink: Tea, coffee, softdrinks, beer, red or white wine
Comments: O.K. except of the meat, surprisingly friendly
service!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
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Photo taken by: T.Gierse
Route: St.Petersburg-Düsseldorf, 19 Oct 2003
Ticket price: pp
Flight duration: 2.30
Aircraft type & class: Tupolev 154M, Y
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: vegetarian Breakfast/Lunch
Contens of the meal: Pasta with vegetable sauce, mixed
salad, filled apple, small cake and bread,
Drink: Tea, coffee, softdrinks, beer, red or white wine
Comments: much better than expected and more than most
other airlines serve on european routes, surprisingly friendly service!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
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Photo taken by: Paul Ch. Carrière, age: 11
years old, status: traveling
as an unacompanied minor.
Flying from: St. Petersburg to Amsterdam, 29 December
2002
Flight duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Aircraft type & class: probably a Tupolev & economy.
Meal: breakfast (!) - a bun, a tuna salad with parsley
and an olive,
a sandwich with half a tomato and slices of ham, sausage and cheese
and three olives, a little pie (packed in red paper), butter (in the plastic
cup, hardly visible), some clamp-like pasta with brown beans, corn,
peas and bacon.
Drink: 0,5 l Pepsi light.
Comments: this meal was served at aprox. 10.00 AM St
Petersburg time
zone; didn't eat the bun - too much - and the tuna salad - don't like
fish.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): due to the overrating of the
pie: 11,5
(sandwich 8, pasta 10, pie 20, tuna salad - for the looks - 8).
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