February 14 (SeeNews) - Flag carrier Montenegro Airlines (MA) plans to start operating flights to a third Russian city in addition to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the short term, the director of the company's representative office on the Russian market, Bozidar Koljevic, said.
"Despite the great competition on the Russian market, we managed to continue our cooperation with the biggest tour agencies such as TUI, PAKS, Biblio-Globus, Natalie Tours, CG Tours and ICS," MA's magazine Inflight Luxury quoted Koljevic as saying.
The new challenges before MA will be the opening of regular flights to Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Kazakhstan, Koljevic added.
MA has been operating flights to Moscow since 2007 and launched a route from the Adriatic town of Tivat to Russia's Saint Petersburg in June 2015.
The state-run flag carrier handled 480,510 passengers in the first nine months of 2016, up 1.5% on the year. In January, Montenegrin transport minister Osman Nurkovic said the country's government aims to sell a 50% stake in MA minus one share.