Uzbekistan Airways transports 575,000 passengers in 1Q

According to the airline, it transported 261,000 passengers to the CIS states and 188,000 passengers to non-CIS states.

The airline said that it provided services to 125,000 passengers within internal flights in January-March 2014, which rose by 10,000 compared to the first quarter of 2014.

Uzbekistan Havo Yollari said that it carried out 5,549 flights in the first three months of 2015, which rose by 55 flights. Number of flights to CIS states reached 1,998 and local flights – 2,157, which rose by 104 flights. The airline carried out 1,394 flights to non-CIS countries, which grew by 61 flights.

The load of passenger seats reached 70.97%, commercial load – 53.58%, the airline said.

Uzbekistan Havo Yollari said that it opened and works on launching new flights or increasing frequency of existing flights. The airline is working on launching passenger flight on route Tashkent-Minsk-Tashkent.

The airline said that it started to use freighters Boeing-767-300ER and refused from renting A-300-600R planes within the development of international intermodal logistic center “Navoi”.

The airline carried out 98 flights and transported 2,600 tonnes of cargo in the first quarter. The airline added that it is planning to transport 37,700 tonnes of cargo via Navoi airport in 2015 and launch new cargo flights with its partners.