OREANDA-NEWS Flydubai Airline (UAE) has decided to re-launch flights from Dubai to Mineralnye Vody (Stavropol Territory), the press service of Minvod International Airport reports.

"Starting from January 3, Flydubai Airlines will resume direct scheduled flights to Dubai from Mineralnye Vody International Airport," the statement said.

Earlier, several foreign airlines suspended flights to Russia amid an investigation into the Embraer 190 Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) passenger disaster that occurred near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on December 25. Among them are AZAL itself (cancelled flights from Baku to 10 cities of the Russian Federation), as well as Kazakhstan's Qazaq Air (from Astana to Yekaterinburg), Israel's El Al (from Tel Aviv to Moscow), Arab Flydubai (from Dubai to Sochi and Minsk).

As a representative of Flydubai told Interfax, it was decided to suspend flights from Dubai to Mineralnye Vody from December 27 to January 3, as well as to Sochi from December 28 to January 2. The decision, he said, was made "for technical reasons."