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pinklife
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 Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: Transfer in Moscow sheremetyevo airport |
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| I am going to St Petersburg via Moscow and have 2 hours to change terminals afer arriving at terminal 2 and departing from terminal1 on Aeroflot around 14.15 hrs. Will the time be sufficient. Do foreigners again have to go through immigration at terminal 1 . Any special care to be taken for faster transit please suggest. |
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romdur
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| Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Two hours is enough time, but the transfer can be slow, so I advise to be prepared and move quickly.
It is a couple of years since I changed planes between the terminals there, but I am confident that you will only go through Passport Control at Terminal 2. Terminal 1 is for domestic flights, so anyone entering that terminal is already "in Russia."
Two things to be careful about:
[1] When you check in for your flight to Moscow, ask if you can get your baggage checked all the way to LED (St. Petersburg). This will save you the time at baggage claim in Sheremetyevo, and the inconvenience of carrying your bags between the terminals. But it may not be possible. If your baggage is checked to SVO, be sure to collect it at Terminal 2!
[2] Terminals 1 and 2 are several kilometers apart, and the transportation between the terminals is rather confusing if you don't speak Russian. (Though Sheremetyevo is an international airport, finding people who speak other languages can be difficult).
There are free buses, but they were not easy to identify when I was last there, and ran at very long intervals. If you speak Russian, it shouldn't be difficult for you to find a for-pay bus that will get you to Terminal 1 soon enough (you may need to buy a second ticket for your baggage). But when you reach the "ground transportation" doors with the buses and taxis, if it is much later than 13.00 (and especially if you are carrying your baggage), I suggest you consider a taxi. They will want a crazy amount of money for the short trip (you can haggle a little), but it is probably better than missing your next flight.
Once your taxi or bus starts rolling, you'll be at Terminal 1 within about 15 minutes.
You will need rubles to take a bus; the taxi drivers will also take dollars or Euros. |
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gaijin
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This transfer is a complete disgrace. You have to run out of the plane to avoid queuing too long at the passport control if you do it from SVO2 to SVO1. From SVO1 to SVO2 you can normally take a shuttle bus without leaving the airport.
You then pick up your luggage if you have any, then go outside and face the pieces of shit claiming to be taxi drivers. They usually demand 50 dollars for the 3 (5 ?) km ride, and if you say it's expensive those m... f...er will have the guts to show you "official" price lists.
Instead of punching them to death as they deserve, because that would get you into troubles and they're not even worth saliva to spit on them, you then try to find a bus going to SVO1 (around 50 rubles, don't remember and yes you might have to pay double price if you have big luggage. It can be tricky if you don't read cyrillic. At least remember these words : Шереметьево and аэропорт. Then ask the driver "Sheremyetevo ahdeen ?"
Then you pray that the bus moves. It's painfully slow (not because it's a bus, the taxi won't be faster, just because of the traffic) so you have plenty of time to worry.
Oh and when you're there you still have to go through the stupid security check at the entrance that doesn't check anything at all but some high ranked Russian pervert thought it would be a nice way to make millions of people lose 5 minutes, and waste billions of rubles.
Then show the printout of your flight schedule (at that point you might want to say "I have an electronic ticket, I don't have a paper ticket you f...ing c..t", but don't), and you might be in time for the second check-in of the day. Then you might have to run for your gate where boarding has probably started.
This is what is called Russian roulette, I suppose. |
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romdur
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| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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I guess you had some troubles there, too 
I've come VERY close to missing my connection more than once there. Literally my first experience on Russian soil was a complete Aeroflot cock-up in getting transfer passengers (I was on my way to a 3rd country) to the other terminal.
Things have gotten better there, but they are slow learning how to be user-friendly. |
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