Asia (bbabo.net), - The weekly number of flights between Uzbekistan and Russia has increased to 22. This was announced today, December 22, by the news agency "Sputnik Uzbekistan" with reference to the Ministry of Transport of the republic.

"Citizens of our country on holidays can visit the following foreign countries by air travel: Russian Federation, 22 flights a week," the department said.

The report notes that to date, regular flights have been restored between Uzbekistan and 18 countries. There are 144 flights per week in 28 directions.

"All flights will be performed in strict compliance with sanitary and epidemiological requirements," added the Ministry of Transport.

Regular flights between Russia and Uzbekistan were interrupted in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Flights resumed on April 1 this year. Shortly thereafter, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed to accelerate the transformation of the national airline Uzbekistan Airways. During 2021, the airline was supposed to return to the volume of flights to Russia, which was before the coronavirus pandemic. Then Uzbekistan Airways performed 87 weekly flights to Russian cities. In turn, Russian airlines performed 97 flights to the cities of Uzbekistan.

In early November, the Ministry of Transport announced that regular flights of five Russian airlines - Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines, Red Wings and Smartavia - between the cities of Russia and Uzbekistan were approved in the winter schedule of 2021-2022. In addition to regular flights of Uzbekistan Airways and Russian airlines, charter flights are also carried out between the two countries.

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