Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Jan.12 / Trend, D.Azizov /
Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways), national airline of Uzbekistan, is selling Tu-154 B/M, the company said.
As earlier it was reported, in connection with the unification of airplanes fleet the Uzbek Airline took Tu-154 out of service from January 2011, which doesn't meet standards of the International Air Transport Association (IATA Operational Safety Audit, IOSA).
The Uzbek Airline put three Tu-154 B/M airplanes, taken out of service, for sale, while the rest that are out of commercial interest, will be written off.
At present, the airplanes fleet of the company has several AN-24 airplanes, which are used by local airlines.
According to the Airline, flights carried out by Tu-154 on the Russian directions, Samarkand- Moscow, Fergana-Samarkand-Kazan, Tashkent-Samara, Tashkent-Ufa, Andijan-Moscow, Nukus-Moscow, Tashkent-Sochi, Urgench-Mineral Waters, Namangan- Novosibirsk and Andijan-Krasnoyarsk from this year are carried out by airplanes of the western production.
As previously reported, "Uzbekistan Airways" in 2004 started to decommission Soviet-made aircraft, exhaust their resources.
As it was reported Uzbekistan Havo Yollari from 2004 has started to take the airplanes of the Soviet production out of service.
Uzbekistan Airways, the monopoly air carrier in Uzbekistan, is fully owned by the state. Airplane fleet of the company currently has 23 planes of western production, including ten Boeing (five 767-300 and five 757-200), eight Airbus (three A-310 and five A-320-200), three RJ-85 and two cargo Airbus A300-600F.
In 2007-2008, Uzbekistan Airways signed contracts worth $1,079 billion with Airbus Industry to acquire ten A-320-200 planes, as well as with Boeing to purchase four Boeing-767-300ER and two Boeing-787-800 Dreamliner.
Within these contracts in 2010 the Uzbek Airline already received five А-320-200 airplanes.
In January-September 2010, the Uzbek Airline increased passenger transportation by 15 percent compared to the same period of 2009 - to 1.6 million, while the amount of freight transportation increased by 83.2 percent - to 35,000 tons with regard to paid baggage.
Uzbek Airline carries out flights to 21 cities of European countries, America, Middle East, Asia, and to 22 cities of the CIS countries and on 11 directions in the local airlines.