Russian Azur Air carrier to launch charter flights to Turkey on September 3

Russia’s Azur Air operator of charter flights plans to launch flights to Turkey’s Antalya on September 3, the carrier’s director for public relations Anastasia Matyushina said, TASS reports.

She said the application for charter flights to Altalya was sent to Rosaviatsia (the Federal Air Transport Agency), and the reply is expected on Tuesday morning.

"We are planning that the first flight to Antalya from Rostov (southern Russia) will take off on September 3, a second one, from Yekaterinburg (Urals), on the following day," Matyushina said, noting that flights from Kaliningrad (northwestern Russia) and Moscow would be launched on September 6, while flights from St. Petersburg - on September 7.