Georgian Civil Aviation Agency says Russian-based Rossiya Airlines was rejected twice to operate in country

Georgian Civil Aviation Agency on Thursday said the media claims alleging that the Russian-based Rossiya Airlines would start operating in Georgia were “unverified” and noted that the airline’s application to operate in the country had been rejected twice by the Agency.

The Agency was responding to the media claims, which earlier today asserted that the “Rossiya Airlines, blacklisted by the European Union, would launch flights to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi and Black Sea city of Batumi”.

As the body explained, on May 16 and once again on September 14, it had declined Rossiya Airline’s applications to launch regular flights from Moscow to Tbilisi and Batumi, clarifying that the Agency would not allow flights from the mentioned airline, as it was on the EU black list.

We would like to elucidate once again that flights between Georgia and Russia are performed and will be performed in the future only by airlines that are not on the EU blacklist”, the body stressed.

The Civil Aviation Agency also added that it would “act in accordance with the above-mentioned decision” for each submitted application in the future.