Direct air service to connect Sochi and China starting from summer of 2016

A direct air service between Sochi and China will apparently start only next summer, when all the required conditions will be created for it, Deputy Managing Director for Tourism of Sochi International Airport Dmitry Zaikin said.

He reported that two Russian companies have been assigned for the flights from Sochi to China: 'Orenburg Airlines' will fly from Sochi to Beijing, the airline 'Taimyr' will fly from Sochi to Urumqi.

"This means that the airlines have intentions to start flights. We hope that these are serious intentions. Currently there is no exact date for the beginning of the flights that can already be announced and declared. We assume that this will be in the summer of 2016. But no one has named the exact date yet," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.