BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug. 27
By Fakhri Vakilov – Trend:
Uzbekistan Airways has announced the start of flights on a new air transportation model, Trend reports citing the press service of the company.
The company is switching to a hybrid model of air transportation - part of the flights will be on the full-service principle, and some on the low-cost airline principle.
There will be flights on classic aircraft with business class and economy class, combined with destinations that use modified airliners in a mono-class layout - full economy class.
Within the framework of the new format of air transportation, which is called Uzbekistan Express, flights will be on the already operating lines of the airline.
Uzbekistan Express will focus on domestic and interregional transportation and will start operating its first flight on an Airbus A320 in a new "full economy" configuration on August 30 on the Tashkent-Moscow-Tashkent route.
The future route network will also include Novosibirsk, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, Yekaterinburg and Aktau, Aktobe.
By increasing the capacity of the refurbished aircraft, Uzbekistan Airways is cutting fares by 20 percent on individual routes on which the refurbished airliners will operate.
Now the company's fleet consists of two converted aircraft. However, the reconfiguration of two more airliners is planned for the near future.
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