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Somon Air history
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OUR HISTORY Somon Air launched its first flight in February 2008 on the Dushanbe-Moscow route, operating a Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
10 YEARS IN THE AIR! Somon Air is the national air carrier of Tajikistan, which has been successfully operating on the international market since 2008 and is the only airline in the country that joined the IATA (International Air Transport Association).
In 2009, Somon Air opened several new routes in addition to existing destinations - from Dushanbe to Frankfurt, St Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Istanbul, Orenburg, and from Khujand to Krasnoyarsk.
By mid-2009, the airline had already operated two Boeing 737-800 aircrafts.
Other new routes were opened in 2010: from Dushanbe to Almaty and Urumqi, and from Khujand to Yekaterinburg.
In 2011, the airline took delivery of its first new Boeing 737-900 aircraft from manufacturer and broadened its route map with flights Dushanbe-Krasnodar, Dushanbe-Kazan and Khujand-Kazan.
In 2012, the airline opened flights from Khujand to Krasnodar and Sochi.
In April 2013, Somon Air joined the IATA Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreement (MITA), and in June, the IATA Clearing House.
In May 2015, the airline received the “High Technical On-Time Performance” award from the Boeing Company in recognition of the timely preparation of aircrafts for flight operations.
On August 31, 2016 Somon Air introduced the flight from Dushanbe to Novosibirsk and return, and the next day – September 1 – a new flight Dushanbe-Sochi was opened.
In 2016, Somon Air was granted a special prize from the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan for its contribution to the development of tourism in Tajikistan.
The latest significant achievement in the history of the airline’s successes was membership in IATA. In September 2017, Somon Air was the first in Tajikistan, which officially joined the International Air Transport Association.
In October 2017, the airline began to operate flights on the route Kulyab-Moscow-Kulyab.
On August 6, 2018 Somon Air launched the flight on the route Dushanbe-Bukhara-Dushanbe.
In October 2018 the airline achieved another accomplishment – received an official permit from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to apply for individual rights on an ongoing basis to fly to the European Union, within and from the EU.
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