Uzbekistan to perform direct flights to Singapore
By Aynur Jafarova
Uzbekistan Airways NAC will implement regular Tashkent-Singapore flights.
The company reported that flights will be operated with Boeing-767 aircrafts on Wednesdays (via Kuala Lumpur) and Thursdays.
Uzbekistan Airways is the monopoly air carrier in Uzbekistan, wholly owned by the state. The company implements flights to 21 cities in Europe, U.S., Middle East, Asia, 22 cities of the CIS countries, as well as domestic flights in 11 directions.
In 2012, the airline company increased the passenger transportation by 13.5 percent to 2.636 million passengers compared to 2011, whereas freight volumes fell by 17 percent to 40,000 tons.
The flying stock of the Uzbek national company includes 31 aircrafts of West production. It exploits 15 Boeing aircrafts, which provide more than half of all airline traffic of the company, including extra-long routes in the U.S. and Japan.