MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Sunday, Aeroflot operated flight SU2134 with no passengers on board to carry the ticket holders stranded in Istanbul to Moscow.
According to Aeroflot's statement, another flight will be performed later in the day to take home Russian tourists from Antalya.
On Saturday, Russia's consul general in Turkey said that about 150 Russian nationals cannot depart from the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul to Moscow following the coup attempt suppressed by Ankara earlier in the day. Soon after the attempt, the airspace over the region of the Sea of Marmara in the north-western part of Turkey was closed for civil aviation and the Turkish Airlines company announced cancellation of all flights scheduled for Saturday. Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia also suspended air traffic to Turkey.
