Russia’s Nordwind Airlines has received approval for a Moscow-New York route, ATWonline reported.

The carrier will replace Transaero Airlines, which went bankrupt in 2015. According to Russia’s federal air transport authority Rosaviatsia, the airline may perform up to 7X-weekly flights.

In October 2015, Aeroflot Group received 56 out of 156 Transaero route designations, because Aeroflot had to carry most of Transaero’spassengers when the second-biggest Russian airline ceased operations. In April Aeroflot Group renounced 13 route designations, including Moscow-New York. Aeroflot said in a statement that it “wants to avoid dominating the market.”

Moscow Sheremetyevo-based Nordwind Airlines started as a leisure charter company in 2008. In 2014 the airline announced it would enter the scheduled-flights market. Currently it performs scheduled flights at several domestic routes; for example, from Moscow to Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Voronezh, Russia, as well as scheduled international flight from Moscow to Yerevan, Armenia.

The carrier´s traffic fell significantly in 2016. Nordwind carried 1.13 million passengers in the January-August period, down 41.4% year-over-year. The result could be explained with significant international leisure-traffic decline because of a flight ban to Egypt and a charter-flight ban to Turkey.