23 airlines, 20 destinations:
Summer aviation season kicks off in Batumi
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The summer aviation season has just started and a wide variety of airlines are scheduling new flights in and out of Georgia’s Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
Eight new airlines will start performing flights during this summer season in Batumi, announced TAV Georgia, a Turkish-owned company that operates Georgia’s Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi international airports.
New flights from Batumi International Airport will be performed towards Moscow, Cherepovets, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Tehran, Dubai, and Beirut.
Polish leisure airline company Small Planet Airlines was the first one who launched seasonal charter flights in Batumi on May 26.
Meanwhile, see the flight schedule for 2017 summer aviation season:
- Nordstar Airlines – Moscow-Batumi from June 2 (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays)
- Severstal – Cherepovets-Batumi from June 3 (Saturdays)
- Nordavia – St Petersburg-Batumi from June 7 (Saturdays)
- Anda Air – Kiev-Batumi from June 14 (Wednesdays, Saturdays)
- Aseman Airlines - Tehran-Batumi from June 21 (Wednesdays)
- Fly Dubai – Dubai-Batumi from June 22 (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays)
- Wings of Lebanon – Beirut-Batumi from June 25 (Wednesdays)
Alongside with these new Airlines regular flights are scheduled at Batumi International Airport towards Israel, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Iran and United Arab Emirates (UAE).
In total 23 airlines will perform flights towards 20 destinations for summer season from Batumi International Airport.
It also should be mentioned, that for summer season ELAL, Ural Airlines and S7 increased flight frequencies from Batumi International Airport.
Polish leisure airline company Small Planet Airlines is launching seasonal charter flights in Georgia, connecting Warsaw to Batumi this summer.
New direct flights will link Georgia’s Black Sea town of Batumi and Ukraine’s historical region of Zaporizhia this summer.
Russian Air Company Nordavia plans to carry out direct flights from St. Petersburg to Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi and the Black Sea resort town of Batumi.
Qatar Airways, the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar, is increasing flight frequency to Georgia to deal with steadily increasing demand.
Georgian Airways launches international direct flights
Georgia becomes more strongly connected to the United Kingdom (UK), with the flight from its capital of Tbilisi to London this summer.
A low-cost airline from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Flydubai, has performed its first flight on the route Dubai-Batumi-Dubai, connecting UAE’s luxurious city to Georgia’s Black Sea resort city.
42 airlines are performing flights to the three international airports of Georgia in Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi this summer.
Domestic flights scheduled this summer
With the summer aviation season now in full swing air company ServiceAir is starting flights on the route Tbilisi-Batumi-Tbilisi.
Ukrainian airline YanAir is expanding its service in Georgia, the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency has announced.
The Georgian Maritime Transport Agency (MTA) has responded to conjecture in the international press concerning the explosion on August 4 in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, noting it is not known whether the ammonium nitrate stored in the city’s port was imported from Georgia.