... in response to Re: Mailing airline tickets to Russia, posted by Mike on Jun 9, 2004My father in law is flying Aeroflot (cheaper, direct to Seattle, everybody in their organization probably speaks Russian). The down side is that Aeroflot does not seem to know about electronic tickets, etc. We have called them in Moscow. Therefore we were stuck with paper tickets and the problems associated with them. Delta would have made it a lot simpler but then he would have to arrive in NYC, negotiate the terminal without any English or experience to catch his flight to Portland or Seattle. And the trip would take 2 times as long. My wife took Lufthansa last summer for her visit to Russia and they probably would have had e-tickets as well. However they were very expensive this year and they stop in Frankfort where again he would have to negotiate a huge terminal.
Sending the tickets. He lives in Ulyanovsk which sometimes does not have the UPS/Fed Ex services that Moscow and other big cities have. (About 3 years ago the UPS office was robbed and burned. They discontinued service for a while -- maybe they still don't have service. Even when they had service the office was impossible to find for my wife who has lived there for 35 years. It was truly a hole in the wall.) Therefore we went with USPS Express mail which we used last year to send my wife's Russian passport to her. The service went well last year and we are hoping for the same success this year.