Russia and Georgia have reopened air traffic with the first direct passenger flight between the two countries since a war in 2008. The Georgian Airways flight took off from the Georgian capital Tbilisi and landed in Moscow two hours later.

Boeing 737 flights are scheduled for January 8, 9 and 10. Georgian Airways said all the tickets were sold out for Friday, BBC reported.

Moscow-Tbilisi direct flights were cancelled in 2006 after the strain on relations between the two countries, then restored in 2008 and again abolished after the August conflict in 2008.