MOSCOW, October 14. /TASS/. More than 30 planes bound for Moscow have been diverted to other cities due to security restrictions at the capital’s airports, representatives of Moscow airports told TASS.
In particular, 19 aircraft have been unable to land at Vnukovo. Those include flights from Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, Dubai, St. Petersburg, Astana, Baku, Pskov, Antalya, Istanbul, Dalaman, and Syktyvkar. According to the airport’s information service, they landed in Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Pskov, and Istanbul. Four flights bound for Domodedovo were diverted to Nizhny Novgorod and St. Petersburg. "Those are flights from Kaliningrad, Dushanbe, Baku, and Hurghada," the airport’s representatives explained. Twelve flights have so far been unable to arrive at Sheremetyevo, including those from Chelyabinsk, Saratov, Perm, Kazan, Mineralnye Vody, and Nizhnekamsk, according to the information desk and online flight boards.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) said earlier that temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft required to ensure safety of flights had been imposed at all Moscow airports.