Another Central Asian capital to have regular flights to Budapest

Good news for Asia enthusiast passengers, Uzbek Qanot Sharq Airlines will operate flights between Tashkent and Budapest.

Qanot Sharq airline will start flights between Tashkent and Budapest Airport on 20 August with its Airbus A320 aircraft, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Transport announced.

According to airportal.hu, Qanot Sharq started out in 1998 but ceased operations in 2012. However, the company managed to bounce back in the summer of 2021 with two leased Airbus A320-200s, each being more than 15 years old. Currently, the fleet includes two new A321neos, which are expected to be joined by a 9-year-old Airbus A330-200 in the near future.

Qanot Sharq is the first private passenger airline to restart operations in Uzbekistan.

In the spring, at the Tashkent International Investment Forum, Hungarian Minister of Economic Development Márton Nagy discussed various economic cooperation opportunities, including the opening of direct flights between the two countries, thus opening the way between Tashkent and Budapest.

The exact details of the flight will be made available on the company’s website later, according to our information.

As we wrote before, OTP Bank has acquired a stake in the Uzbek Ipoteka Bank.