Georgia: Flagship airline bans president over Russia flights criticism

Source: Yahoo! News

“The founder of Georgia’s national airline Georgian Airways has banned the country’s president from using its services after she said she would boycott the airline over its resumption of flights to Russia, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Sunday. Russia announced this month it was lifting a four-year old ban on direct flights with Georgia and removing a decades-old visa requirement for Georgians travelling to Russia. President Salome Zourabichvili urged Georgian authorities to thwart the Russian initiative, an appeal they ignored. Tamaz Gaiashvili, founder of privately-owned Georgian Airways, was cited by TASS on Sunday as saying that Zourabichvili was now ‘persona non grata’ and would be banned until she ‘apologises before the Georgian people.’ There was no immediate reaction from Zourabichvili.” (05/21/23)

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