Tajikistan’s privately owned air company, Somon Air, to resume flights from Dushanbe to Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Somon Air Director-General Abdulqosim Valiyev said this at a news conference in Dushanbe on February 1.
According to him, the first flight on this air route is scheduled for February 8.
“First we will operate once-weekly service and starting from March, this flight is expected to operated twice a week,” Valiyev said.
Somon Air is the first private airline in Tajikistan with an office headquartered in Dushanbe. The airline operations are based at Dushanbe International Airport. The airline started operating on February 5, 2008 with regular flights to Moscow and Dubai. Somon Air also serves as the official carrier of President of the Republic of Tajikistan and other Tajikistan high-ranking officials.
Somon Air is a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Somon Air's fleet consists of Boeing 737-800 and 737-900 family aircraft. The company is focused on expanding the route network of air transportation and the fleet, and currently operates regular flights from Tajikistan to Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Turkiye, China, India, Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
