DUSHANBE, January 12, 2011, Asia-Plus -- Tajik air company, Somon Air, will launch a new air route to Ukraine next month.

According to the company press center, Somon Air will launch once-weekly service from Dushanbe to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv beginning on February 23.

The flight will be operated on Thursdays and a ticket for the flight costs 250 euros.  A return ticket costs 500 euros.     

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.  

Somon Air now operates to the following destinations: China (Urumqi); Germany (Frankfurt am Main); Kazakhstan (Almaty); Russia (Irkuts, Khanty-Mansisysk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Orenburg, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Tuymen and Yekaterinburg); Saudi Arabia (Jeddah); Tajikistan (Khujand); Turkey (Istanbul); Ukraine (Simferopol); and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai).