By president’s decree issued on July 10, 2018 the Supervisory Board for Tajik Air (Tajikistan’s national air carrier) will be set up,
The Supervisory Board of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Tajik Air will consist of 13 persons and be headed by the Prime Minister.
The Supervisory Board members will include First Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of civil aviation, First Deputy Head of President’s Executive Office, Minister of Finance, Minister of Transport, Minister of Justice, Chairman of the State Committee on Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest), Director of the Civil Aviation Agency, Director of Tajik Air, Director of Dushanbe International Airport, and Director of Tajikaeronavigatsiya (Tajik Air Navigation).
Tajik national carrier has been experiencing serious financial problems since the late aughts. Experts say this hard state of the national air carrier has resulted from high prices for aviation fuel and instable economic situation. According to them, only government support can rescue Tajik Air from bankruptcy.
Tajik Air (Tajikistan Airlines) is the national airline of Tajikistan. The airline has its main hub at the Dushanbe airport, and it retains a secondary focus point at the Khujand airport.
The company started operations on September 3, 1924 as Tajik Aviation. Its first route was Bukhara to Dushanbe, served by Junkers F-13 aircraft. It is the sixth oldest airline still in operation.
Tajik Air now serves the following destinations: China (Urumqi); India (New Delhi); Iran (Tehran, Mashhad); Kazakhstan (Almaty); Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek); Russia (Moscow, Novosibirsk, St Petersburg, and Surgut); and Tajikistan (Khorog and Khujand).
The Tajik Air management is currently considering potential upgrade of its air fleet with aircraft of modern Western technology.
Until 2008, Tajik Air had an absolute monopoly in Tajikistan’s air transport, owning all planes, airports, and airport and flight services. As a result of restructuring, Tajik Air was split up into several separate companies.
