(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 27. Passenger
transportation via the Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport
in Uzbekistan have considerably increased in January through April
2023, year-on-year, trend reports.
As data provided by the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan
shows, the passenger transportation at the airport exceeded 1.9
million people, increasing by 42 percent yearly.
A number of 1.2 million people were transported via domestic
airlines, which is an increase of 337,700 people or 135.4 percent
year-on-year.
At the same time, international flights carried 631,500
passengers, which is 57 percent more than in the same period of
2022.
In 2022, passenger transportation at Uzbek airports amounted to
7.9 million people, increasing by 46 percent compared to 2022.
According to the CEO of Uzbekistan Airports company Rano
Juraeva, the country aims to achieve a passenger traffic increase
of 18 percent in 2023, reaching 9.29 million passengers. These
projections are based on the introduction of new resident airlines
such as Panorama Airways, Centrum Air, Air Samarkand, Sayohat Air,
Semurg, and Silk Avia, as well as an expansion of the aircraft
fleet by 34 planes.
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