Companies lost more than 1 billion rubles due to a ban on Georgia

Russian airlines lost more than 1 billion rubles due to a ban on flights to Georgia, which was introduced in the summer of 2019. It is reported by Kommersant.

According to the source of the publication, the losses of the Victory airline amounted to 500 million rubles, in S7 they estimated their losses at 600 million, and a source in Red Wings spoke about the damage of 200 million.

At the same time, as Kommersant writes with reference to interlocutors in companies, the Ministry of Transport may not compensate for losses, although he promised to do it.

In the evening of June 20, a protest action began in Tbilisi. This happened after the State Duma deputy Sergei Gavrilov took the place of the speaker of the Georgian parliament at the Assembly of Orthodoxy, speaking in Russian. After the shares, in the evening of June 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that temporarily prohibits Russian airlines in Georgia.