DUSHANBE, April 27, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik air company, Somon Air, is launching two new international air routes.

Beginning on May 8, the air company will operate flights to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  The flight will be operated once two weeks – on Sundays.

In May, Somon Air will also launch an air route from Dushanbe to Simferopol, Ukraine.  It will be once-weekly service; the flight will be operated on Thursdays.        

Somon Air is an airline based in Dushanbe.  It is Tajikistan''s first private airline.  Somon Air is also the first airline in Tajikistan to launch an online booking system. The airline uses the Boeing 737 in its fleet.

As of March 2011, Somon Air operates to the following destinations: China (Urumqi); Germany (Frankfurt am Main); Kazakhstan (Almaty); Russia (Khanty-Mansisysk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Orenburg, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg); Tajikistan (Khujand);Turkey (Istanbul); and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai).     

The Somon Air fleet now includes three Boeing 737-800s.  The company has also ordered two Boeing 737-900ERs.