MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered to investigate the country's top prosecutor what experts call the worst meltdown in Russian air travel in 15 years, after a Moscow ice storm all but two biggest airports of the country paralyzed.
Reuters passengers resting at the Moscow airport Domodedovo Tuesday.An estimated 20,000 tourists to delays up to two days to reach and include the new year's Eve in the busiest winter travel, before the holiday. Passenger busiest airport Russia, Domodedovo, crowded faced power outages and a smell of sewage delayed while the lack of aircraft de-icing liquid at Sheremetyevo, OAO Aeroflot and other SkyTeam flights, what to brawls between passengers and airline employees.
The Attorney General will examine possible, by the private company, Domodedovo International Airport, the country's busiest and the semi-public company that controls Sheremetyevo international airport, home of OAO Aeroflot that has largest airline and a member of the International Alliance SkyTeam are crimes.
Late Tuesday, the consumer watchdog said Russia's top rights 14 cases was inaugurated by alleged violations Domodedovo and that a full probe of Sheremetyevo's response to the distruption underway, Interfax reported.
Transport Minister Igor Levitin on Tuesday publicly apologized to the failure of aviation and said he was summoned back to Moscow Domodedovo's owner.
Airport of chief executive, Vyacheslav Nekrasov, on Monday a desperate plea to federal authorities sent as passengers grew dissatisfaction in the midst of a power failure, started in the early hours of Sunday morning. Meanwhile at Sheremetyevo lack of aircraft de-icing fluid 70 contributed canceled flights of Aeroflot alone, with hundreds of flight delays.
Domodedovo's start and landing, equipment and electronics normally worked to turn the emergency generators that officials were insufficient, complete airport. The facility would not be able to handle another day without further assistance from authorities expected passenger flows, Mr Nekrasov said on Monday.
Airline and airport officials reported that conditions were Tuesday improvement, but thousands of delayed passengers continue to push the terminals. At Domodedovo, Nadezhda Shishakova waited another third day with a friend and three children for a flight to St. Petersburg.
AFP/Getty Images to Moscow Domodedovo Airport passengers paralyzed by bad weather."It is more or less warm," said how lounged children against a cooler cushioned by a mink coat. She says they ensure Russia's largest holiday in time to spend new year, by far, with their relatives, get won't and says you can not take the train from Moscow baggage, because the airline says, back or even give her a hotel room.
The Group airport in darkness by the blackout came early Sunday from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the far East to find, plunged. The three young children through dark corridors with highlights from their mobile phones Sunday and then spent two nights sleep on chairs and the grille led the women.
It says its airlines, TRANSAERO, hotel rooms and food 7,000 passengers has available.
At Sheremetyevo shouting angry passengers "negative" slogans against Aeroflot. Employees of the airline, including women, have been "beaten by disgruntled passengers," said spokeswoman Irina Danenberg. An officer in Sheremetyevo on call in the police said there was no violence and no complaints filed.
Denied reports of widespread disorder and novel Genis, a spokesman for Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo said, there was no fighting, but that deprived passengers "collected your voice." Aeroflot blame beatings at Sheremetyevo to the poor response of security staff.
Both airports covers flights on Tuesday but less than half of the normal capacity. Sheremetyevo looks to boost kept saying Levitin on hand, Mr amount of liquid, de-icing and the problems at the Domodedovo should provided by new year's Eve, normal weather solved.
Official Moscow forecasts for Wednesday dismissed mentioned yet heavy snow, falling temperatures and increasing wind.
"For this big a collapse, we only weather guilt cannot", Maya said Lomidze, executive Director of the Russian Association of tour operators, added that it had seen the worst air shut down in your 15 years experience in Russia.
"The biggest problem was not that passengers had to wait, it is that they were not told how long you had to wait", said Ms Lomidze. Sheremetyevo was overloaded, moved by additional Charter flights and some flights from Domodedovo, but it was unclear, why Aeroflot insufficient fluid and delayed flights could get aircraft de-icing, although other airlines take off and landing, she said.
Russian railways said ticket window for train tickets 24 hours a day at the Moscow airports and planned additional high speed trains to St. Petersburg, work Levitin, the Transport Minister, proposed as Mr cancellation of flights between Russia's largest cities.
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