Air Samarkand is adding a third weekly scheduled return service from Samarkand to the Turkish capital of Istanbul, starting on Saturday, 14th September.
The new weekly Saturday service will regularly use an Airbus A321 aircraft, adding to existing scheduled return services operating every Monday and Thursday from Samarkand International Airport (SKD) to Istanbul International Airport (IST). These are operated with the airline’s Airbus A321neo aircraft on the scheduled 5 hour flight.
Air Samarkand’s Airbus A321 provides 12 Business Class and 182 Economy Class seats.
Zafar Butaev, CEO of Air Samarkand, says: “This third weekly rotation on the Samarkand-Istanbul service will deliver increased flexibility to our customers and help to satisfy the growing demand from business and leisure travellers on this route, with further increases likely very soon.”
The expanded service to Istanbul marks the continued and steady expansion of Air Samarkand’s route network. In late July the carrier began flying to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to support religious pilgrims, increasing the frequency to five per week by September – with two services departing from Samarkand and one each week from the Uzbek cities of Termez, Fergana and Namangan. Air Samarkand also serves Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt and Nha Trang in Vietnam, using Airbus A321neo and A330-300 aircraft.
