‘These will mainly be some Moscow-based companies that will actually suffer the greatest losses because of the possible bans for Russian airplanes to fly to Tunis. Ural travelers are not going to be seriously affected as Yekaterinburg dwellers don’t really go to Tunis that much,’ Bosfor Travel Agency’s Commercial Director Alexei Satarov said to UrBC.

‘We are hoping, though, that our authorities actually manage to settle the issue,’ he added.

Last weekend, Tunisian authorities cancelled their permissions to enter the country given to all Russian carriers; this lasted a few hours; the flights are now performed using temporary permissions valid until the end of May 2007.