Bushehr-Tbilisi Flights Start on June 28

Direct flights will be launched between Bushehr in southwestern Iran and Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, on June 28, the head of the Bushehr Province's office of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization said. Nasser Amirzadeh added that connecting Bushehr to overseas destinations is a priority and direct flights to Tbilisi are in line with this objective, Mehr News Agency reported on Monday. He did not say which airlines plan to conducts the flights. On Friday, Taban Air launched a route from Isfahan to Tbilisi, which it will operate twice a week. Georgia is rapidly becoming a popular destination for Iranian tourists who have either grown tired of Turkey or are avoiding Iran's northwestern neighbor following a string of terror attacks in the past two years, which have targeted popular sites in Istanbul and Ankara.