Somon Air launches new air route to Russia

DUSHANBE, April 12, 2010, Asia-Plus  — Tajikistan’s first private air carrier, Somon Air, has launched a new air route to Russia – from Khujand, the capital of Sughd province to Yekaterinburg. According to the Somon Air press service, the first flight on this route was operated today morning.  It is once-weekly service and Somon Air […]

Nargis Hamroboyeva

DUSHANBE, April 12, 2010, Asia-Plus  — Tajikistan’s first private air carrier, Somon Air, has launched a new air route to Russia – from Khujand, the capital of Sughd province to Yekaterinburg.

According to the Somon Air press service, the first flight on this route was operated today morning.  It is once-weekly service and Somon Air uses Boeing 737-800 to operate this flight.

Somon Air is an airline based in Dushanbe.  The company now operates to the following destinations: Germany (Frankfurt am Main); Russia (Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk,


Moscow, Orienburg, St Petersburg and Sochi); Turkey (Istanbul); and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai).  In Tajikistan, Somon Air operates flights from Dushanbe to Khujand.  

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