Aeroflot maintains Jakarta flights

Aeroflot maintains Jakarta flights

MOSCOW (Reuters): Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot said
yesterday it would continue its new scheduled flights between
Moscow and Jakarta despite unrest in the city.

Vice-president Valery Vdovenko told Reuters the company had no
plans to suspend the weekly flights on a service launched only on
April 1. "We see no reason to for now," he said.

Vdovenko said Aeroflot's weekly A-310 Airbus flight from the
Indonesian capital had arrived in Moscow on Friday after leaving
Jakarta with a four-hour delay.

The next flight from Moscow to Jakarta is scheduled for
Wednesday but Vdovenko said Aeroflot was ready to lay on extra
flights if it became necessary to evacuate Russian citizens.

Friday's flight carried a number of family members of Russian
diplomats and businessmen based in Jakarta who had decided to
leave Indonesia in view of the unrest.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had no
immediate plans to evacuate the staff of its Jakarta embassy but
advised Russians against visiting the country.