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FlyDubai, a United Arab Emirates-based budget airline, has suspended flights to two Russian cities following this week’s Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan, the Association of Russian Tour Operators said today.
The suspension, which goes into effect tomorrow and will continue until 5 January, affects over 2,000 passengers, 90 per cent of whom are clients of tour operators, the group said in a statement.
Tour operators are working to address the disruption, it added.
Earlier in the day, Kazakh airline Qazaq Air announced the temporary suspension of flights between Astana and Yekaterinburg, citing security concerns.
Azerbaijan Airlines also extended the list of Russian cities where it suspended flights until the end of the crash investigation.
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight traveling from Baku to the city of Grozny in Russia’s Chechen Republic went down near Aktau, located on the Caspian Sea coast, on Wednesday with 67 people onboard.
Kazakh officials said 38 people were killed in the crash while 29 survived.
READ: Azerbaijani passenger plane crashes near Kazakh city of Aktau