The national airline of Uzbekistan is planning over the next three to four months to open flights to Mumbai from Tashkent and Samarkand, reported Indian agency PTI 8 April.
“We are now considering the introduction of flights connecting Tashkent and Samarkand with Mumbai,” the Agency quoted Honorary Consul of India in Uzbekistan Vijay Kalantri.
According to him, all the paperwork to obtain regulatory approval of India for starting the flight has already been completed. “I hope that flights will be open as early as July of this year,” said Kalantri.
According to the Agency, this week the Ambassador of Uzbekistan in India Salih Inagamov confirmed that the “launch flights from Tashkent and Samarkand in Mumbai is on the agenda”.
It should be reminded that at the present time the company Uzbekiston HAVO yullary (Uzbekistan airlines) operates flights to Tashkent-Delhi and Tashkent-Amritsar.
As already reported BakuToday, representative of the national airlines (NAC) Uzbekistan Airways in Delhi Atabek Atabaev in January of this year stated that the national airline Uzbekistan plans to increase the frequency of flights between the capitals of Uzbekistan and India to seven per week.
According to him, every year an increasing number of flights from India to Uzbekistan. “If in 2010, NAC at Tashkent-Delhi-Tashkent took 16th. 895 passengers for eleven months of 2011, the company carried 25th. 871 people. Increasing number of Indian passengers business-and first-class HAVO yullary Atabaev said.
He also stated that the now national airline Uzbekistan has five flights a week between the capitals of the two countries. “Download complete, 90% of passengers are tourists, there is a demand and Vista. Therefore, we plan to increase the frequency of flights Uzbekistan Airways up to seven per week. Today the rise and gruzootpravkam, “said the spokesman for Uzbek airlines.
