Georgia will limit the flights of Russian airlines

Since December 8, the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency will reduce the number of regular flights to Tbilisi of Russian airlines. According to Kommersant, the National air carrier Georgian Airways applied to the corresponding requirement to aha.

According to the newspaper, the number of Aeroflot flights and Siberia Airlines between Moscow and Tbilisi will be reduced from 14 to 10 per week. At the same time, Transaero and Globus carriers (Siberia subsidiary) were denied a “permanent license for regular flights”.

Last week, Georgian Airways accused Aeroflot of artificially underestimating the prices for flights between Moscow and Tbilisi, as a result of which the loading of flights of the Georgian company decreased by 60-70 percent. Georgian Airways CEO of Jaysa Zautashvili threatened to stop flying in this direction. According to the sources of the publication in Tbilisi, "all kinds of ties in deputy circles and even the patriarchy" were connected to solve the problem in favor of the Georgian carrier.

Aeroflot confirmed the receipt of a telegram from Georgia indicating the reduced number of frequencies, and Siberia and the Federal Air Transport Agency refused to comment on this information. At the same time, the Ministry of Transport stated that they were ready for negotiations.

The Transaero, which has already begun selling tickets for a flight from Moscow to Tbilisi, said that the position of the airline had not changed and passengers who issued tickets would not suffer financially. According to the newspaper, Georgia will allow this carrier to carry out flights on the sold tickets on a charter basis, and the further work scheme "will be produced in a separate order."

Regular air traffic between Russia and Georgia was interrupted at the initiative of the Russian side in August 2008 in connection with the armed conflict in South Ossetia. In 2010, Siberia, Ural Airlines and Georgian Airways resumed charter flights.

In mid -September of this year, the Federal Air Transport Agency allowed to resume regular air traffic between the two countries. The tolerances for flights were given Aeroflot, VIM-Avia, Globus, Siberia, Transaero, Ural Airlines and UTair. On October 27, after a six -year break, Aeroflot made the first flight from Moscow to Tbilisi.