Uzbek carrier Air Samarkand has announced a raft of new international route developments and increases in weekly frequencies over the coming months.
Air Samarkand will launch new services to Tbilisi and Batumi in Georgia, and to Baku in Azerbaijan, while also increasing scheduled operations to Istanbul and Tel Aviv.
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Zafar Butayev, CEO of Air Samarkand, said: “These latest route developments will support growing customer demand for new and enhanced services on our Air Samarkand route network. All provide connections where we have seen rising demand or identified clear opportunities to establish new routes for tourist, pilgrim and business travellers. We are meeting increased demand for convenient and competitive direct services to link our historic city of Samarkand and Tashkent with important neighbouring markets and destinations further afield.”
The new services will be operated with Airbus A330 (with 313 seats) or Airbus A321 (194 seats), or Airbus A321neo (221 seats) aircraft.
Air Samarkand opened its first scheduled service in March 2024 to the Turkish capital of Istanbul and subsequently opened destinations to Abu Dhabi and Al Ain in the UAE, the religious Saudi cities of Jeddah and Medina, the tourism hot-spots of Nha Trang and Phú Quốc in Vietnam, and Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt from both Samarkand and Tashkent.
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