MOSCOW (Xinhua) -- A Georgian airline may run the first flights between Moscow and Tbilisi since 2006 within next month, Russian media reported on Monday.

The Russian Transportation Ministry said earlier that Georgian Airways has been allowed to run charter flights from Tbilisi to Moscow on Dec. 29 and Dec. 30, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
However, the Georgian company later announced that the dates for the first flights since air travel between the two countries was frozen three years ago would be postponed for at least a week.
Direct flights between Tbilisi and Moscow were suspended in 2006 following a spy row. They were resumed briefly in 2008, but halted again in August the same year after Georgia tried to retake South Ossetia by force.
Georgian Airways announced on Friday that it has canceled charter flights to Moscow on Dec. 26-27, as negotiations with the Russian officials on resuming air links had failed.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had previously expressed readiness for the resumption of the flights, adding that it was up to Georgia's decision whether or not the flights shall be restored.