OREANDA-NEWS. December 24, 2009. Flight tickets from Georgia to Russia are on sale. The tickets are available in Tbilisi International Airport. The first charter flight to Moscow is expected to be at 12:20 with local time on December 26.

Airzena-Georgian Airlines has asked the Russian Ministry of Transport to allow it to charter daily flights from Dec. 26 to Jan. 15 and to restore regular flights from Jan. 5. The application was being considered at the Russian Ministry of Transport, the company said.

Earlier, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev had spoken about reinstating flights between Georgia and Russia: “I don’t see any serious obstacles [in this issue], since that stems first and foremost from the public’s interests”.

After Medvedev’s statement, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili also supported the resumption of the flights.