SCAT Airlines to fly from 8 Kazakh cities to Batumi this summer
The news was revealed as Minister Jaba Putkaradze met representatives of the airline, with the flights set to start on June 10. Photo: Ministry of Finance, Economy of Adjara
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Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airlines will carry passengers from eight Kazakh cities to Georgia’s Black Sea city of Batumi starting next month, the regional Ministry of Finance and Economy of Adjara said on Tuesday.
The news was revealed as Minister Jaba Putkaradze met representatives of the airline, with the flights set to start on June 10.
Putkaradze also met Kazakhstani journalists to introduce them to the dynamics of the post-pandemic recovery of the tourism sector of Georgia and the Adjara region. The visiting media professionals will produce promotional articles on the country for Kazakhstani-language online platforms following their trip to Georgia.
The number of international visits to Adjara have recovered by 82 percent compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019, while also marking a 178 percent increase year-on-year, the Ministry said.
Latvian airline Air Baltic has resumed flights between Batumi International Airport in Georgia’s Black Sea region of Adjara and Riga, TAV Georgia, the company operating Tbilisi and Batumi airports in the country, announced on Wednesday.
Uzbekistan’s Centrum Air budget airline will launch direct flights linking Tashkent and Tbilisi later this month, the United Airports of Georgia announced on Tuesday.
Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air plans to station its fourth passenger jet at western Georgia's Kutaisi International Airport in December and resume direct flights from the location to Copenhagen, United Airports of Georgia Director Irakli Karkashadze announced on Thursday.
Air Moldova will increase the frequency of its flights to Tbilisi International Airport in the Georgian capital and add a connection between Chișinău and the western Georgian city of Batumi, the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency said on Thursday.
A total of 585,800 Georgian resident travellers took a trip outside of the country in the first quarter of 2023 with most of these trips being made to Turkey (234,100) and Armenia (64,300), show the latest data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia.