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LOT Airlines to launch direct flights to Uzbekistan: Warsaw-Tashkent-Warsaw route
24 December 2023
LOT Airlines to launch direct flights to Uzbekistan: Warsaw-Tashkent-Warsaw route

The Polish Airline company LOT Airlines is planning to launch regular direct flights on Warsaw-Tashkent route 4 times a week during April-June 2024.

Uzbek diplomats in Warsaw had a meeting with the President of LOT Polish Airlines, Michal Fiel in Poland. According to the Polish partners, the LOT Polish Airlines airline will begin launching regular direct flights between Warsaw and Tashkent in March 2024.

Michal Fiel noted that as a result of his trip to Uzbekistan this summer, fruitful relations were established with representatives of the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan, the Civil Aviation Agency, Uzbekistan Airports JSC and Uzbekistan Airways JSC.

The president of LOT Polish Airlines mentioned that according to established tradition, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, the Deputy Minister of Tourism, representatives of parliament and other officials will fly to Uzbekistan on the first flight to Tashkent from Warsaw.

As was emphasized, given the high demand for flights on the Warsaw-Tashkent route, in April-June 2024 flights will be operated 4 times a week. The President of LOT Polish Airlines also noted that it is possible to transport a total of 40 thousand passengers per year.

So far, LOT Polish Airlines has been operating charter flights on the Warsaw-Tashkent route starting 21 March 2023 through June this year.

We had informed our readers earlier that with the transition to the winter schedule, the company is planning to switch to regular flights between Warsaw and Tashkent cities.

As a reminder, Uzbekistan and Poland decided to launch flights between the capital cities in August 2022 after having a series of negotiations, after which it was agreed to arrange flights at the beginning of 2023 with LOT Polish Airlines.

As reported in March, by the end of the year, LOT Polish Airlines was intending to switch from charter flights on the route of Warsaw-Tashkent-Warsaw to regular ones, which is being implemented now.

For the reference, LOT Polish Airlines is a Star Alliance member and serves over 100 destinations worldwide, Poland’s national airline company with a history of more than 90 years in the market.  

 

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