BAKU, February 3. /TASS/. Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) company has suspended all flights between Baku and Russia’s Astrakhan for an indefinite time due to security issues, the press service of the air carrier said in a statement.

Due to recurrent closures of airspace over Astrakhan recently, including Monday, "AZAL airline will suspend all Baku-Astrakhan-Baku flights for an indefinite time for ensuring the security of flights," the statement said.

Earlier, the air carrier suspended flights to a number of Russian cities, including Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Grozny, Makhachkala, Vladikavkaz, Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, and Kazan, until completion of the investigation into the crash of its Embraer 190 plane near the Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25. The aircraft heading from Baku to Grozny carried 67 people, including 62 passengers and five crew members. They were primarily citizens of Azerbaijan, as well as nationals of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. According to the latest data, 38 people, including seven Russians, lost their lives.