MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/. The first direct flight from Pyongyang has landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The flight was operated by Nordwind Airlines on a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft with a capacity of up to 440 passengers, the travel time was about eight hours, a TASS correspondent reports.

Direct flights between the capitals of Russia and the DPRK were restarted on Sunday. The flight took off from Sheremetyevo Airport at 7:30 pm on Sunday (4:30 GMT), and it landed in the North Korean capital at 9:30 a.m. local time (12:30 a.m. GMT) on July 28. The flight was performed on the same plane.

At Pyongyang airport, the flight was met by the Russian delegation headed by the co-chair of the intergovernmental commission on trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation between Russia and North Korea, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov.

Such flights are planned to be operated once a month.

Direct air service between the two countries was resumed in August 2023 after a pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.