MOSCOW, August 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia’s two leading airlines, Aeroflot and S7 /Sibir/ said Friday they were suspending flights to Georgia. “A decision has been taken to suspend flights to Georgia,” Aeroflot’s press secretary Irina Danenberg told Itar-Tass, adding that the decision had been taken in the follow-up to the Russian Transport Ministry’s instruction to cancel air traffic between Russia and Georgia. Aeroflot makes flights between Moscow and the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
S7 press secretary Irina Kolesnikova said the airline was suspending flights to Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi. “Our staff will contact shortly the passengers who purchased tickets for these flights and will tell them about the causes of cancellations and where and how they will be able to get back their money,” she said.
Representatives of the Georgian airline Airzena, which makes commercial flights to Russia on the Georgian side, declined to comment on the situation.
S7 makes three flights a week between Moscow and Tbilisi, one flight to Kutaisi and one flight to Batumi. Aeroflot makes six flights a week between Moscow and Tbilisi, and Airzena has daily flights between the two capitals. S7 sources told Prime-Tass economic news agency earlier in the day the Georgian aviation authorities had sent a telegram requiring a change of the traditional route that crosses the territory of Ossetia and telling the airline to fly via Azerbaijan.
Regular flights between Russia and Georgia resumed in spring after an interval that had lasted a year and a half.
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