Georgian Airways, S7 to continue charter flights between Georgia, Russia in 2012
TBILISI. Dec 26 (Interfax) - Georgian Airways and Russian airline Sibir (S7 Airlines) have received permission from the aviation authorities to carry out direct charter flights between Moscow and Tbilisi in 2012, the airlines told Interfax.
The airlines currently have permission to carry out parallel daily flights until the end of 2011.
"We already have the okay on daily flights in Moscow in January. I do not think there will be a problem in this direction in the future," Georgian Airways PR Director Nino Giorgobiani said.
The airline continues to fly the Batumi-Moscow route, which will in 2012 as in 2011 be carried out twice per week - on Tuesdays and Sundays.
Sibir also already has its Moscow-Tbilisi flight timetable for January and plans to keep it the same for all of next year," Paata Kamarauli, an S7 spokesman in Georgia, said.
"Flights between Moscow and Kutaisi, which were resumed in August this year, have had to be temporarily stopped due to reconstruction at the airport in Kutaisi," Kamarauli.
Flights between Russia and Georgia were suspended in August 2008 due to the conflict in South Ossetia. Flights resumed in August 2010. Initially permission was given for Georgian Airways and S7 to carry out flights until the end of October 2010. This term was subsequently extended several times.