Sochi Airport shut down for over six hours after drone attack

The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) lifted restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft at Sochi Airport today at 4:19 MSK. Recall that the resort«s air harbor was closed at 22:30 on 20 January due to a drone attack.

Meanwhile, there are no reports of massive flight delays at the airport. The flight to Yekaterinburg by Rossiya Airlines, which was scheduled to depart at 23:15 on 20 January, has been delayed and rescheduled for 8:00 on 21 January.

The departure of an Aeroflot flight to Moscow has been moved from 01:30 to 11:30.

A Red Wings flight to Tbilisi will depart at 9:00 instead of 6:30.

A UTair flight to Surgut has been rescheduled from 12:50 to 15:00.

Arriving flights from Mineralnye Vody, Yekaterinburg, and Tbilisi have been delayed.

— We ask passengers to carefully monitor information about their flight status from the airlines, which communicate all changes via the contacts provided in the booking, as well as to listen for audio announcements in the terminal or subscribe to flight notifications in our Telegram bot @AerodinamikaBot, — the press service of Sochi Airport reports.