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Turkmenistan Airlines to open additional flights to Kiev

9 April 2013 11:34 (UTC+04:00)
Turkmenistan Airlines to open additional flights to Kiev

The State National Service Turkmenhowayollary (Turkmenistan Airlines) has announced the opening of additional Ashgabat - Kiev - Ashgabat flights.

The flights will be operated according to the following schedule:

May 21 - June 20, 2013 - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and

August 13 - September 19, 2013 - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

It was reported that the further modernisation of the passenger aircraft fleet of Turkmenistan and bringing the number of Boeing aircraft to 31 in the period 2016-2020 will allow for the opening of new flights from Turkmenbashi to St. Petersburg (Russia) as well as from Ashgabat to Jeddah, Medina ( Saudi Arabia), Cochin, Ahmedabat (India), Samara (Russia), Hanoi (Vietnam), Vienna (Austria), Sofia (Bulgaria), Budapest (Hungary), Manama (Bahrain) as well as New York (USA) and Toronto (Canada).

At present, in addition to domestic flights, Turkmenhowayollary operates regular flights to Abu Dhabi, Amritsar, Almaty, Bangkok, Birmingham, Delhi, Dubai, Kiev, London, Moscow, Minsk, Beijing, Istanbul, Moscow, Frankfurt and other cities.

In April 1993, Turkmenistan became a full member of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a specialised agency attached to the UN. Work is being done on the accession of Turkmenistan into the International Air Transportation Association (IATA).

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