Tajik national air carrier, Tajik Air, has resumed fights to China’s capital, Beijing. 

The airline is resuming flights to Beijing beginning today afternoon at 4:40 pm, Aziz Khairulloyev, a spokesman for Tajik Air, told Asia-Plus.

The duration of the flight from Dushanbe to Beijing is five hours and 30 minutes and the duration of the flight from Beijing to Dushanbe is six hours and 40 minutes, according to the Tajik Air press center.

It is once-weekly service – the Dushanbe – Beijing flight will be operated on Mondays.  The price for round trip to Beijing is 1,748 somoni.

Recall, Tajik Air launched an air route from Dushanbe to Beijing on May 2, 2016.  Tajik Air reportedly acquired a new Boeing 757-200 for operating this flight, as this plane is equipped with the most modern facilities.   

Meanwhile, Tajik Air has operated flights from Dushanbe to Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), since 1991.

Tajik Air now operates its regular flights to the following cities in Russia: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Surgut; also, it flies to Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek), Kazakhstan (Almaty), Iran (Tehran), China (Beijing, Urumqi), and India (New Delhi).

From the Khujand International Airport, regular flights are operated to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Surgut.

As regards domestic destinations, the Air Company flies from the capital city of Dushanbe to Khujand.

Currently, the Tajik Air’s air fleet has 36 aircraft, 12 of which are operated on flights including two Boeing 757-200s, two Boeing 737-400s, one Boeing 737-300, one MA-60, one AN-28, one AN-26 and three Mi-8 MTV helicopters.  The remaining 24 aircraft, mainly of the USSR production, are on long-term storage.

The Tajik Air management is currently considering potential upgrade of its air fleet with aircraft of modern Western technology.