MOSCOW, 8 February (BelTA) – Aeroflot – Russian Airlines will increase the number of Moscow-Minsk flights from three to five a week as from 9 February. According to the booking system of Aeroflot, the flights will be performed not only on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, but also on Tuesdays and Fridays, BelTA has learned.
All flights, apart from Thursdays flights, will depart from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport at 15:15 and arrive in Minsk at 16:55. On Thursdays, the flights will take off from Sheremetyevo at 14:00 and land in Minsk at 15:40. Return flights from Minsk will depart at 18:00 (apart from Thursdays) and arrive at Sheremetyevo at 19:50. Thursday flights will leave Minsk at 17:10 and arrive at Sheremetyevo at 18:50.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, in late March 2020, Russia grounded regular air service with all countries, including Belarus. Since late August, Russia has been gradually resuming international flights. Air service with Belarus resumed on 21 September 2020, when the national air carriers Aeroflot and Belavia got the green light to perform one flight a week each. On 14 October 2020, the Russian government allowed to increase the number of flights between Moscow and Minsk to three a week on a mutual basis, and on 8 February – to five a week on a mutual basis. The air carriers are also cleared to operate one flight a week from Minsk to Saint Petersburg and from Minsk to Rostov-on-Don on a mutual basis from 8 February.
In addition, Belarus and Russia are resuming railway service on 8 February.
To be granted entry to Russia, passengers from Belarus are required to present a negative COVID-19 PCR test, performed no later than 72 hours before the trip.
