The airline will open an international hub in the Olympic capital. The start of its work is scheduled for March 25. Flights will be organized from Sochi to Aktau, Aktobe, Almaty, Antalya, Atyrau, Baku, Bishkek, Bukhara, Yerevan, Cairo, Nur-Sultan, Osh, Samarkand, Istanbul, Tashkent, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Urgench, Fergana and back. From April 12, Bodrum and Dalaman will be added to these destinations. Transportation will be carried out on Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft.
Meanwhile, the Federal Air Transport Agency extended the restrictions on the operation of airports in the south of the country until April 1. In connection with the events in Ukraine, the activities of the air gates of Anapa, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov, Simferopol and Elista have been suspended. The rest of Russian airports, including Sochi, Volgograd, Mineralnye Vody and Stavropol, operate as normal.