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Routes In Brief: Rolling Daily Updates (W/C Jan. 8, 2024)
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The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.
Somon Air restarts Tashkent route
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Tajiki carrier restores service from Dushanbe.
Routes Reconnected: Somon Air nears deal for two 737 MAX-8s
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With the added range of the Boeing 737 MAX-8, nonstop routes to Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai are high on the Tajikistani carrier’s agenda.
MAX jets back on the agenda for Somon Air
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The airline has restarted talks with Boeing about adding the MAX jet to its fleet to enable further network expansion.
Somon Air seeks codeshares, sees huge India potential
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Somon Air CEO Thomas Hallam wants to expand the Tajikistan airline’s network through codeshares and believes the Central Asia-India market is ripe...
Somon Air still considering 737 MAX and widebody jets
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Widebody jets and 737 MAX are still in the picture as Somon Air aims to connect Central Asia's capitals, chief executive Thomas Hallam has revealed.
Kazakhstan aims to change perceptions to push tourism
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Kazakhstan needs to promote itself better as a tourist destination if it is to see serious growth in passenger numbers, delegates at Routes Silk...
CEO-packed conference line-up at Routes Silk Road
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Routes Silk Road will bring together key decision makers from the region’s airlines, airports and tourism authorities for face-to-face meetings,...
Get to know the Stans: Tajikistan
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In the first part of a new series focusing on the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, often referred to as ‘the Stans’, Routesonline...
How Somon Air is reaching new peaks
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Somon Air has been challenging Tajikistan’s state-owned flag carrier since 2008 and is marking up sizeable successes.