DUSHANBE, January 19, 2015, Asia-Plus — International Dushanbe Airport (IDA) Director Rustam Kholiqov says they have not yet received an official notice from the Uzbek civil aviation authorities about resumption of the Tashkent-Dushanbe flight.
“I saw in the air flight system that Uzbekistan Airways intends to operate the Tashkent-Dushanbe flight on March 29 but we have not yet received any official notification of resumption of this flight,” Kholiqov told reporters in Dushanbe on January 19.
The MFA information department head Abdulfayz Atoyev also told Asia-Plus that he does not have information about resumption of the air communication between Dushanbe and Tashkent. “Moreover, I would like to say that I have not told this to journalists,” Atoyev noted.
We will recall that some websites offering information about flights and air tickets reported on Saturday that Uzbek national air carrier, Uzbekistan Airways, will start twice weekly service from Tashkent to Dushanbe in March this year.
According to these websites, Uzbekistan Airways will begin offering a twice weekly service to Dushanbe from March 29, 2015.
In the framework of agreements reached during talks between the presidents of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Dushanbe in September last year, Tajikistan has sent a number of proposals to Uzbekistan on expansion of bilateral cooperation.
The Tajik authorities reportedly noted that resumption of regular air communication between Dushanbe and Tashkent and bus service between cities of the two countries would promote expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The air communication between Dushanbe and Tashkent was cut off in 1992.
