Pobeda granted permission to fly to three more Uzbek cities

MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Russian airline Pobeda has obtained permission from the Federal Air Transport Agency to run regular flights from Moscow to the cities of Nukus, Navoiy and Termez in Uzbekistan, the agency reported.

The permits are effective for up to seven flights per week on the first two routes and up to three flights per week to Termez. The three permits have been transferred to Pobeda on a temporary basis and are currently held by Ural Airlines , Red Wings and IrAero respectively.

Pobeda currently operates flights to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent and to Samarkand.

The Federal Air Transport Agency also revoked Pobeda's permanent permit to run flights between Moscow and Doha, Qatar, and between Tyumen and Almaty, Kazakhstan, on the basis that it did not use either of them. Rossiya Airlines, which, like Pobeda, is part of the Aeroflot group, also had its temporary permit for the St. Petersburg-Dushanbe route revoked.

Pobeda currently offers international routes to Minsk in Belarus, Gyumri in Armenia, Istanbul, Antalya, Alanya and Dalaman in Turkey, Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE, Tashkent and Samarkand in Uzbekistan and Osh in Kyrgyzstan. The company plans to begin running four flights per week from Moscow to Khujand, Tajikistan, on September 1.

Pobeda is a budget airline belonging to the Aeroflot group. Its fleet consists of 42 Boeing 737-800 aircraft without business class seats.