The first flight of Azimuth from Moscow to Tbilisi will take place on May 19

On May 19 at 8:50 Moscow time, the first flight of Azimut Airlines from Moscow to Tbilisi will take place, after which flights on this route will be operated daily, follows from the information on site companies.

As of 12:55 Moscow time, the cost of the cheapest ticket from Moscow to Tbilisi on May 19 is 25,063 rubles. The first flight from Tbilisi to Moscow will also take place on May 19 at 14:55 local time (15:55 Moscow time), follows from the information on the Azimuth website. The cheapest flight ticket to Moscow costs 23,587 rubles.

Azimuth is the first Russian airline that Georgia issued permission to operate flights to the country after the lifting of the ban on air traffic from the Russian Federation. Today, May 16, the Georgian airline Georgian Airways received permission to fly to Russia, flights to Moscow will be operated seven times a week starting May 20. The Red Wings are known to requested in Rosaviatsia permits for flights to Georgia from Moscow, Samara and Kazan.

Former Minister of Economy of Georgia Levan Davitashvili informedthat three Russian airlines requested flights to all three Georgian airports: Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi. He did not specify the names of the airlines. At the same time, the Georgian authorities had previously said that flights from Russia should be operated only by those airlines and aircraft that did not fall under sanctions.

May 10 Russian President Vladimir Putin stripped off a ban on flights to Georgia for Russian airlines, and also canceled the visa regime for Georgian citizens from May 15. In the Ministry of Transport spokethat Russian airlines will operate seven weekly flights from Moscow to Tbilisi and back on domestically produced aircraft. The Georgian government welcomed the move, but President Salome Zurabishvili named the abolition of visas is a provocation.

Erdni Kagaltynov