Tajik delegation has proposed the Azerbaijan’s side to consider the possibility of operation of flights between Dushanbe and Baku by Azerbaijan’s air carriers.

This issue was discussed in Baku on September 28 at a meeting of Tajik parliamentary delegation, led by Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Speaker Shukurjon Zuhurov, according to Muhammadato Sultonov a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon.

Zuhurov reportedly noted that Tajik national air carrier, resumed once-weekly service between Dushanbe and Baku on the basis of the government-to-government agreement signed in March 2013 but flights were suspended due to financial losses.

Tajik parliamentary speaker proposed to study the issue of operation of flights between Dushanbe and Baku by Azerbaijan’s air carriers.

President Aliyev promised to study the issue within the next few days, Sultonov said.  

Recall that Tajik President Emomali Rahmon raised the issue of resumption of flights between Dushanbe and Baku at a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev that took place here last autumn.

Meanwhile, Tajik national air carrier, Tajik Air, has resumed flights from Tajik northern city of Khujand to St. Petersburg (Russia).  The first flight on this air route will operated on October 9.  Flights on this air route will be carried out once a week, on Sundays, on the Boeing 757-200 airliner.

Currently, Tajik Air operates its regular flights from Dushanbe to the following cities in Russia: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Surgut; also, it flies to Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), Kazakhstan (Almaty), Iran (Tehran), China (Beijing, Urumqi), and India (New Delhi).

From the Khujand International Airport, regular flights are operated to Moscow, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Surgut.

As regards domestic destinations, the Air Company flies from the capital city of Dushanbe to Khujand and Khorog.

Currently, the Tajik Air’s air fleet has 37 aircraft, 12 of which are operated on flights including two Boeing 757-200s, two Boeing 737-400s, one Boeing 737-300, one MA-60, two AN-28s, one AN-26 and three Mi-8 MTV helicopters.  The remaining 25 aircraft, mainly of the USSR production, are on long-term storage.

The Air Company management is currently considering potential upgrade of its air fleet with aircraft of modern Western technology.