DUSHANBE, March 15, 2010, Asia-Plus — In early April this year, Russia’s air carrier, Ural Airlines, will launch air route from Ufa, the capital of Russia’s Boshkortistan Republican to Dushanbe and Khujand (the capital of Sughd province), according to press service of Ufa airport.
The flights will be operated once a fortnight, on Saturdays and Ural Airlines will use A320 to operate these flights.
To-date, the numbers of Tajiks living and working in Boshkortistan are estimated at more than 7,000 and regular aerial communication will promote further expansion of economic and cultural cooperation between Boshkortistan and Tajikistan, the press service said.
Since 2005, Ural has operated flights from Dushanbe and Khujand to Yekaterinburg. Besides, it has launched air routes from Dushanbe to Irkuts, Krasnodar, Perm and Samara as well as from Kulob to Moscow and Samara over the past two years.
Ural Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It operates scheduled and charter, domestic and international flights. Its main base is Koltsovo International Airport. Ural Airlines also has a codeshare agreement with Malév Hungarian Airlines.
Ural has announced plans to retire its An-24s, Il-86s and Tu-154s in 2010 when it is scheduled to take delivery of its first of ten Sukhoi Superjet 100s it has on order. It has leased seventh ex-Iberia A320-200 and will add an ex-Thomson Airways A320-200 later this year.
