Flights will operate twice a week.

Rossiya Airlines launches flights from Yekaterinburg to Sochi

Rossiya Airlines and tour operator Biblio-Globus have opened flights from Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, St. Petersburg and Ufa to Sochi.

“The airline will operate Boeing-737-800 aircraft on these routes… Since June, it is planned to increase the frequency of flights under the joint program of Rossiya and Biblio-Globus,” the press service of Rossiya reported.

The first flight from Yekaterinburg is scheduled for April 29. Flights from Koltsovo will operate twice a week – on Mondays and Fridays.

According to the online booking system on the website of Koltsovo Airport, the ticket price starts from 24.5 thousand rubles.

“Sochi is currently also a major transport hub, an international hub of “Russia”. Therefore, new flights can also be useful for transit passengers from different cities of Russia who want to go on vacation abroad on the airline's flights, the airline's press service added.

Last week, the Federal Air Transport Agency extended the regime of temporary flight restrictions at 11 airports in the southern and central parts of the Russian Federation until May 1. “The regime of temporary flight restrictions at 11 Russian airports has been extended until May 1, 2022, 03:45 Moscow time. Flights to the airports of Anapa, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol and Elista are temporarily restricted. The decision is connected with the events in Ukraine.