Wizz Air has resumed flights from Luton airport to St Petersburg and added two routes from the UK to Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
The budget airline as the only UK carrier with a direct connection to the Russian second city. It is running flights twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays with one-way fares starting at £19.99.
The return follows the airline restarting a service from Luton to Moscow Vnukovo airport on August 15, with flights on Saturdays and Tuesdays.
The resumption of the two routes follows the lifting of travel restrictions in Russia.
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Wizz Air UK managing director Owain Jones said: “We are proud to be the sole British carrier connecting the UK to St Petersburg, providing a genuinely affordable and unique travel opportunity to our UK customers.”
Meanwhile, Wizz has expanded its UK-Lithuania offering with routes from Birmingham and Liverpool to capital city Vilnius from October 22 as part of five new routes to the city from across Europe.
Birmingham services will operate three times a week and flights between Vilnius and Liverpool John Lennon will operate twice weekly. Fares start from £21.99.
George Michalopoulos, chief commercial officer, said: “We are delighted to announce further expansion of our local network by adding the new Airbus A320ceo aircraft to our Vilnius base. We are confident that Wizz Air’s ultra-low fares and expanded route network will make travel affordable to ever more passengers as well as contribute to the ramp up of local tourism sector.”