DUSHANBE, February 26, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Russia’s air carrier, Ural Airlines, is launching a new air route from Tajikistan to Russia today – Khujand-Samara, Anna Tomilova, a spokeswoman for Ural Airlines told Asia-Plus.

According to her, the flight will be operated once a week, on Fridays.  Ural Airlines uses A320-200 to operate this flight.

Ural has operated flights from Dushanbe and Khujand to Yekaterinburg over the past five years.  Besides, it has launched air routes from Dushanbe to Irkuts, Krasnodar, Perm and Samara as well as from Kulob to Moscow in the last two years.

Ural Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It operates scheduled and charter, domestic and international flights. Its main base is Koltsovo International Airport. Ural Airlines also has a codeshare agreement with Malév Hungarian Airlines.

Ural has announced plans to retire its An-24s, Il-86s and Tu-154s in 2010 when it is scheduled to take delivery of its first of ten Sukhoi Superjet 100s it has on order.  It has leased seventh ex-Iberia A320-200 and will add an ex-Thomson Airways A320-200 later this year.