Cyprus Airways on Thursday announced it had added routes to Moscow and St. Petersburg to its network for this winter after the Russian authorities gave the green light. This reported by Cyprus Mail.

The company said earlier this week it could not operate its planned new weekly flight schedule from Larnaca to Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, which was scheduled to start at the end of November after Russian authorities placed restrictions on the airline.

On Thursday, it said the obstacles had been overcome.

“We are extremely happy that we managed to overcome the obstacles we recently faced with the Russian authorities for the operation of our flights to Moscow,” Chief Operations Officer of Cyprus Airways, George Mavrocostas said.

Following this development, Cyprus Airways said it will operate flights to Moscow Domodedovo Airport once a week until January 15, 2021 while flights to St. Petersburg will commence on January 21.