Russia to open flights to Greece and Singapore
The Russian authorities decided to resume from February 8 air traffic Greece and Singapore.
The operational headquarters for the prevention of the importation and spread of coronavirus infection reported: “According to the results of the discussion and taking into account the epidemic situation in individual countries, the headquarters decided to resume on a reciprocal basis international flights from February 8, 2021 with Greece and Singapore.”
Flights to Greece on the Moscow-Athens route are scheduled twice a week, Singapore-Moscow - three times a week.
Air traffic with these countries was suspended in the spring of 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
From February 8, flights to foreign countries will begin from the international airports of Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Makhachkala, Mineral Waters, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Khabarovsk.
From February 8, the number of scheduled flights to Egypt from Russian airports, from which international flights have resumed, will increase with a frequency of no more than a weekly flight from each airport.
Currently, Russia has air links with 19 countries, including Turkey, Tanzania, Switzerland, UAE, Maldives, Egypt, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Serbia, Cuba, Japan, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Vietnam, India, Qatar, Finland.
Flights to the UK are not possible until February 1 inclusive due to the threat of the spread of the “British” strain of coronavirus infection.
Source: tourism.interfax