Whether through the arrival of foreign airlines or Russian airlines setting up their own subsidiaries, low cost airlines are inexorably taking their place in the Russian air travel market.

As if you needed further proof of that, the low cost "par excellence", Ryanair, has been the latest low cost airline airline to announce the launch of Russian routes, the very first for the Irish carrier.

Dublin to Moscow and Saint Petersburg...for now, but I would expect many more to follow!