Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - In pursuance of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of “On measures for the further development of the tourism sector in the Republic of Uzbekistan”, the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the development of tourism and Uzbekistan Airports are actively working to attract foreign airlines to international airports in Uzbekistan.

It should be noted that the issue of opening new flights of the Turkish air carrier was studied for 8 months. As a result of measures taken to increase air traffic between cities of Uzbekistan and foreign countries within the framework of the execution of the aforementioned Decree, as well as with the efforts of Uzbekistan Airports with the support of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan, this issue was positively resolved and permission was issued to Turkish Atlasglobal Airlines flights to Uzbekistan.

Atlasglobal (until 2015 Atlasjet Havacılık A.Ş) is a Turkish airline operating regular and charter passenger flights both to Europe and Asia, as well as within Turkey. Based in Istanbul's new airport, with an additional hub at Dalaman Airport. It belongs to ETS Group.

According to available information, the Turkish airline plans to carry out 2 charter flights in order to organize an information tour involving journalists, bloggers, executives and employees of travel agencies, as well as representatives of spirituality, religious figures and scholars. On 31 October - 4 November, Atlasglobal will make the first charter flight Istanbul-Bukhara, Istanbul-Samarkand.

Starting with the IATA summer 2020 summer season, Atlasglobal Airlines has planned 50 flights for the development of pilgrimage tourism, in which more than 10 thousand tourists are expected to arrive.