The service takes a little over 7 hours and will depart from Tashkent International Airport every Friday at 11:55pm, starting on 1st November, and is operated by an Air Samarkand A330-300 that offers 36 comfort class seats and 277 in economy. The return flight will depart from Phú Quốc, a popular destination for beach holidays, at 11:00am and arrive back in Tashkent at 4:00pm. All times are local.
This expands on a previous arrangement with the Vietnamese-headquartered package holiday specialist, which saw services connect Samarkand with the coastal resort of Nha Trang in Vietnam during the aviation industry’s summer season (between April-September).
Package tours from Crystal Bay are distributed through most travel agencies in Uzbekistan and online. Crystal Bay Tourism also provides a B2B system through which travel agencies can easily select and book tours for their clients. This system streamlines the booking process and allows agencies to offer high-quality tour packages to their clients.
Air Samarkand has also announced that its once-weekly service from Tashkent to Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has now switched from the ‘Garden City’ airport in Al Ain, to the city’s main Zayed International Airport (AUH). Flights on the three-hour and 40-minute route use an Air Samarkand Airbus A321 aircraft, which provides 12 business and 182 economy class seats.
In a third development, Air Samarkand has also launched a twice-weekly shuttle service from Samarkand to Tashkent, to support domestic workers and leisure travellers wanting to fly between the two cities in Uzbekistan. Flights depart from Samarkand every Friday and Sunday morning with an Airbus A321, arriving in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent just 50 minutes later. Return flights depart from Tashkent to Samarkand on the same days in the evening.
“The expansion of our scheduled route network and chartering services provides even greater choice, flexibility and convenience for our customers in this region, and to drive inbound tourists,” said Zafar Butaev, CEO of Air Samarkand. “We are excited to add new city destinations and countries to our flight map, which we are certain will be popular among both tourists and business travellers.”
Adiljon Melikuziev, CEO of Crystal Bay Uzbekistan, said: “We are delighted to expand our chartering programme with Air Samarkand, which in such a short space of time has established a reputation for delivering good customer service at an affordable price. This agreement will expand on our choice of holiday destinations for sun-seekers to a new holiday hotspot in Vietnam.”
These developments follow Air Samarkand’s expansion of services to Istanbul in September, to three return flights a week. In late July the carrier began flying to Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, to support religious pilgrims. Frequency increased to seven return flights per week by September – with three services departing from Samarkand and one each week from the Uzbek cities of Termez, Fergana, Bukhara and Namangan. Air Samarkand also serves Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, using Airbus A321neo aircraft.
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