: It later moved forward the date of the last flight from Manchester to Sept. 10, according to The Moscow Times. Airlines have been hit hard by the sharp devaluation of the ruble, which last year lost 40 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar on the back of plunging oil prices. The flights will stop from March 21, 2016, the company said, adding that "easy Jet will keep the potential reintroduction of the route under review." The airline said in May it was scrapping its Moscow-Manchester flights from Oct. 23 due to falling demand, having previously cut the number of its flights to both British cities. This has made tickets priced in foreign currencies more expensive compared to those offered by Russian airlines, as well as making traveling abroad more expensive for Russians. British tourists to Russia, on the other hand, now face an extra hurdle when obtaining a Russian visa: They have to visit the visa center in London in person to provide their fingerprints, a measure that has put off some would-be tourists who live outside the capital. When combined with falling incomes, the result has been a significant drop in the number of Russians traveling abroad.
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