Onur Air (Istanbul Airport) has cancelled its 2x weekly service from Istanbul Airport to Nalchik in the Caucasus, southwestern Russia, leaving it without international service, ch-aviation data has revealed. The route started only on April 21, with flights that had been scheduled until October 7.

The route was Nalchik's maiden international service and the decision to drop it leaves the Caucasian airport currently served exclusively by Aeroflot, which operates 7x weekly from Moscow Sheremetyevo.

In June 2018, the Russian federal air transport regulator Rosaviatsia suspended the certificate of Nalchik airport, TASS reported at the time, due to the poor state of its infrastructure and cracks in the runway. The airport had already closed to all traffic from April 7 to 9 for urgent runway repairs after a complaint by Pobeda, which had been operating there from both Moscow Vnukovo and St. Petersburg.

However, on July 18, 2019, TASS reported that Pobeda would resume its flights to Nalchik. It will operate daily from Moscow Vnukovo from October 27 and 3x weekly from St Petersburg from October 29, using B737-800 equipment.