Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo) along with VIM Airlines (Moscow Domodedovo), Globus (Novosibirsk), S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk), Transaero Airlines (Moscow Vnukovo), Ural Airlines (U6, Ekaterinburg), and UTair (UT, Khanty-Mansiysk), have all been granted Georgian traffic rights Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) has announced.
The regulator said in a press release that scheduled air services between the two former Soviet republics had been restored as of September 15. As previously reported, Aeroflot is scheduled to commence flights to Tbilisi with effect from October 26.
Georgia severed its ties with Moscow following the 2008 South Ossetia War which pitted Georgia against Russia and the separatist states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Until now, official air travel had been limited to charter services.
