Low-cost carrier "flyDubai" (flyDubai) is temporarily canceling its flights between Dubai and the Russian airports "Sochi" and "Mineralnye Vody" from tomorrow until January 5 due to a safety threat. This was announced on its official website by the Russian Association of Tour Operators ATOR, BTA reported.
According to the association, the flight suspension will affect over 4,000 passengers. Tour operators are taking action to quickly resolve the problem with the cancellation of "flyDubai" flights, says Artur Muradyan, Vice President of ATOP.
The airline is considering the possibility of distributing the affected passengers to less busy flights of other operators flying between Dubai and Makhachkala and Volgograd. The possibility of transferring passengers to flights of other airlines flying to Dubai, such as Ural Airlines from Sochi, is also being studied.
Earlier today, the Azerbaijani news agency AZERTAC reported that by a decision of the State Agency for Civil Aviation of Azerbaijan from December 28, 2024, flights from the capital Baku to the Russian airports of "Mineralnye Vody", "Sochi", "Volgograd", "Ufa" and "Samara" will be suspended.
On Wednesday, December 25, an Azerbaijani passenger plane with 67 people on board crashed near the Kazakh port city of Aktau on the Caspian Sea, killing 38 of the people on board. Preliminary results of the investigation into the crash point to physical and technical external interference, the Azerbaijani news agency AZERTAC reported.