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At the initiative of the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan Airports JSC is creating a regional subsidiary airline Silk Avia. The new air carrier plans to start flights next year, Uzbekistan Airports said in a statement.

Silk Avia airline was registered in September this year, and within the framework of the Dubai Airshow-2021, which took place from 14 to 18 November in Dubai, Uzbekistan Airports and HAS Aviation GT LLC signed an agreement on the development of a Strategy for the creation of a regional airline.

The creation of a regional airline is important for stimulating business activity in Uzbekistan and creating conditions for the development of domestic tourism, which, in turn, will affect the increase in the coefficient of aviation mobility of the population, which shows the average number of flights per inhabitant of the country.