Introduction of flights between Belgrade and Tashkent increasingly certain

Plans to introduce flights between Belgrade and Tashkent are advancing, with services expected to launch in the coming period, the Uzbek and Serbian foreign ministries said yesterday, as reported by the EX-YU Aviation News portal. Following a period of deliberation, the two sides confirmed that operations between the capitals would be introduced, although they did not identify the airline involved. They noted that the new route would strengthen economic cooperation, tourism and people-to-people ties. Last October, Serbia’s President said Air Serbia was examining the possibility of launching flights to either Tashkent or Samarkand, with the final destination to be selected following a commercial and economic assessment. Discussions advanced in February, when an Uzbek delegation met Air Serbia’s CEO Jiri Marek and Serbia’s Minister for Construction, Transport and Infrastructure in Belgrade to explore the introduction of flights and potential cooperation between the two countries’ airlines.

Air Serbia’s CEO recently said the carrier would increasingly focus on Central Asia as part of its future expansion plans.

Air Serbia previously said that Central Asian carriers had expressed interest in launching flights to Belgrade following SCAT Airlines’ introduction of services between the Serbian capital and Astana last year.

Belgrade was last linked to Uzbekistan by scheduled flights in 2004, when Uzbekistan Airways operated between Tashkent, Belgrade and New York using Boeing 767 aircraft.

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