TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, October 25. Türkiye’s SunExpress Airline will start operating direct flights from the Turkish city of Izmir to Uzbekistan’s Samarkand, Trend reports.
The flights on the Izmir — Samarkand — Izmir route are scheduled to commence on November 12 and will be operated by a Boeing 737 aircraft.
Flights on the route will be operated three times a week — on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
Earlier this year, Turkish Freebird Airlines started operating flights between Samarkand and Bodrum. Uzbekistan and Türkiye plan to further increase the number of flights this year and launch flights to new destinations between the regions of the two countries.
The number of foreign tourists visiting Uzbekistan from January through December 2022 amounted to 5.2 million, which is 2.8 more than in the same period last year. Of these, the number of Turkish tourists visiting the country is fixed at 75,600.
Furthermore, the number of Uzbek tourists visiting foreign countries exceeded 5.1 million, with Türkiye being one of the most popular destinations: 306,000 Uzbek citizens visited the country from January through December 2022.
