Russia increases flights to Japan

Russia and Japan have resumed flights suspended in the spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, the anti-crisis center said.

Aurora Airlines will resume flights between Vladivostok and Tokyo on November, 8, operating one flight a week.

Also, Aeroflot will resume flights from Moscow to Tokyo on November 5, the airline said. The carrier will increase the number of flights to Belarus, Switzerland and the Maldives.

“From November 5, regular flights to Japan will resume. The first flight to Tokyo is scheduled for November 5, 2020, flights at the first stage will be operated once a week, then twice a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays (back on Saturdays and Sundays),” the airline said in a statement.

The company also noted that on October 17 it resumed flights to Belgrade (Serbia) and plans to make them twice a week. The number of flights to Minsk and Geneva will be increased to three times a week, to the Maldives – up to four times a week.

Russia’s visa center re-opened in Tokyo in late October.

Nowdays, flights to a number of countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Egypt, the UAE, Turkey, the UK, Switzerland and Cuba, have been resumed.