TBILISI. Nov 19 (Interfax) - Ural Airlines has become the second Russian airline to operate direct scheduled flights between Moscow and Kutaisi, one of Georgia's largest cities, said the company's representative in Georgia.
There will be one flight per week, on Saturdays, in each direction, Anzor Kavtiashvili told Interfax.
Ural Airlines meanwhile continues regular traffic between Yekaterinburg and the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, that it launched a year ago, he said.
Another Russian carrier, S7 Airlines, resumed flights between Moscow and Kutaisi as from November 4. It also operates direct flights between Moscow, on the one hand, and Tbilisi and the Georgian city of Batumi, on the other, jointly with Georgian Airways.
Air traffic between Russia and Georgia stopped in August 2008 because of the war between the two countries that month, but resumed in August 2010. Georgian Airways and S7 Airlines were the first to be allowed to run flights between Russia and Georgia.