The airline Shirak Avia plans to launch direct air service between Tashkent and Yerevan, the Uzbekistan Airports press service reports.
According to the carrier’s plan, flights will be operated starting from May of this year once a week using Boeing 737 aircraft. This will be the first regular flight between the capitals of Uzbekistan and Armenia in recent decades.
Currently, passengers can travel from Yerevan to Tashkent and back only with a layover in Moscow, Tbilisi, or Istanbul. It is expected that the opening of the new route will contribute to strengthening tourism and business ties between the two countries.
In November 2017, the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov discussed with his Armenian counterpart Karen Karapetyan the prospects of launching direct air service between the countries. The topics of that meeting also included cooperation within the framework of a free economic zone, the creation of which was then underway on the border with Iran.
The airline Shirak Avia was founded in 2019 and is based at Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan. The carrier has a fleet of three Boeing 737 aircraft and currently mainly operates flights to various cities in Russia.
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