Panaji – Goa’s tourism season 2025-26 kicked off on Thursday with the arrival of a charter flight from Russia, at Manohar International Airport in North Goa during wee hours.

Passengers of the first international flight of the season were given a traditional welcome by the state tourism department.

Director of state tourism Kedar Naik was present at the airport located at Mopa in North Goa to welcome the travellers.

A senior tourism department official said that this season will witness the introduction of three new weekly flights from Novosibirsk city in Russia which will land at the Mopa airport.

“These additional services, together with the existing flights from Yekaterinburg and Moscow, will increase Aeroflot’s operations to nine flights per week, highlighting the strong demand fo

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