IrAero Airlines has launched flights on the Samarkand-Kazan route. 

Flights are carried out weekly on Tuesdays, starting from September 20 until the end of October. Russian-made SSJ 100 aircraft performs the flights.

Departure from Samarkand to the capital of Tatarstan is at 18:30. The flight in one direction takes 3 hours and 40 minutes.

The launch of the previous regular flight by the carrier was reported back in 2018 (in the direction of Krasnoyarsk - Fergana).

In early September, another Russian regional air carrier, Yamal, announced the launch of flights to Uzbekistan. The first charter flight from Moscow to Namangan took place on September 19.