The situation at Moscow airports, where dozens of flights have been delayed again due to drone attacks, is ‘slightly better than it was in May,’ said Russia’s new transport minister, Andrey Nikitin, who was appointed to the post after the death of his predecessor, Roman Starovoit.
According to Nikitin, it is impossible to predict when the ‘Carpet’ plan, which provides for the closure of the sky, will be implemented, but ‘airports are adapting.’
The previous evening, restrictions were introduced at all four Moscow airports (Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, Zhukovsky), as well as at the airport in Nizhny Novgorod. Dozens of flights were delayed at Sheremetyevo.
Rosaviatsiya reported that the order of landing and departure of aircraft at Sheremetyevo Airport has been temporarily changed — they are carried out ‘in agreement with the relevant authorities.’
Restrictions at Moscow airports were lifted only in the early morning, but delays spread to other regions. At the airports of Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Sakhalin, nine flights to Moscow were delayed, with more than 2,700 passengers awaiting departure, according to the Far Eastern Transport Prosecutor’s Office.