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Mar 29, 2022 (newstodate): Besides a brief period of OL glamour and boasting the proximity to the Russian president's summer palace, Sochi, on Russia's Black Sea coast, is taking on a new role as Aeroflot's hub for international flights.
   As EU and other airspace remains closed to Russian airlines and aircraft, Aeroflot is building up Sochi Airport as a hub for international flights using routing beyond sanctioned space and operations with Russian-built aircraft without foreign ownership.
   Aeroflot is thus now setting up routes from Sochi to so far 17 destinations including Yerevan, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Aktau, Aktobe, Alma-Ata, Atyrau, Nur-Sultan, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul and Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Urgench, and Fergana.
   The flights will be operated by Aeroflot Group member Rossiya airline that has a fleet comprising 68 Superjet 100 aircraft, of which ten will be allocated to serving Aeroflot's new international routes.