A Russian airline carried out its first flight on a new route connecting Moscow and the North Korean capital on Monday, marking the first direct commercial flight between the two cities in decades.

Nordwind Airlines’ flight NWS6107 (tail number RA-73340) touched down at Pyongyang’s Sunan International Airport at around 9:30 a.m. KST after an over eight-hour red-eye, according to the Flightradar24 aircraft tracking service.

Notably, unlike Russian government aircraft that have visited North Korea over the past two years, Nordwinds’ Boeing 777-212 reached the DPRK via Chinese airspace, without taking a detour through Siberia and Vladivostok on its way to