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Economy 14/04/2011 Most of Uzbekistan Airways flights conducted with modern aircrafts
Most of Uzbekistan Airways flights conducted with modern aircrafts
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan Havo Yollari (Uzbekistan Airways), national airline of Uzbekistan, carries out 98% of flights on domestic routes on modern aircrafts.

The company said that only 2% of flights are conducted on An-24 airplanes, which will also removed from exploitation soon. Currently, majority of flights of airline on international and local routes are conducted with airplanes of Airbus A320 and local Il-114-100.

Uzbekistan Havo Yollari is purchasing Airbus A320 for modernization its fleet. In line with the agreement with Airbus, the Uzbek company will receive ten planes. The airline received five A320 planes in 2010 and one in early April 2011. Other four airplanes will arrive in Uzbekistan in 2011.

Medium-range A320 aircraft manufactured by Airbus will entirely replace outdated Tu-154 and An-24 aircraft on domestic and regional routes. The Tu-154 operation was terminated on 31 December 2010.

A320 aircrafts have been configured in a spacious two class cabin layout seating 150 passengers, 12 in business and 138 in economy. The eco-efficient A320 will benefit from the latest aircraft design and technological improvements contributing to lower fuel burn and emissions.

Airbus A320 airplane consumes twice as less fuel than Tu-154 of the same passenger capacity (2.2 tonne/hour versus 5.5 tonne/hour). This aircraft weighs less and this factor is very important for the aircraft operators. Its avionics is wonderful, and triple backup of all the systems makes this aircraft reliable and safe.

The Uzbek airline started to use Airbus A320 airplane from 19 July 2010, when first A320 started to carry out regular flights of the company.

The company said that after eight month of exploitation, Airbus A320 airplanes are optimal variant of the plane for conducting flights up to 5,000 km.

During this time, the airplanes conducted 1,234 flights (20 flights a week) and transported over 140,000 passengers to Amritsar, Delhi, Tel-Aviv, Lahor, Almaty, Bishkek, Krasnodar, Ufa, Kaliningrad, Novosobirsk, Tyumen, Moscow and Saint Petersburg from regional centers.

Uzbekistan Havo Yollari also ordered two Boeing 787 Dreamliner and two Boeing 767 airplanes. First deputy director-general of Uzbekistan Havo Yollari Egambergen Palvanov said that the company will receive first Boeing 767 planes in 2012 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner later.

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