At the forward door we were greeted by two very friendly flight attendants. Uzbekistan Airways' A320 business class cabin consists of 12 seats, spread across three rows in a 2-2 configuration. The legroom was roughly what you'd get in first class on US airlines, and I thought the plane still appeared to be in pretty…
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Was a bit worried when I read the flight time at the top and it said 11 hours, thought it was going to be a review of a disaster flight!
Wow, that Somon Air 737 looks very similar to the Sólyom Hungarian Airway, that never took off after painting one 737 to its colors.
Um...did I miss something?
Are we not going to have the pleasure of reading reports of your time in Uzbekistan?? No report on your exploration of Tashkent? Or of the sidetrip to Samarkand? Or an insight as to why you and Matthew chose Samarkand over Bukhara?
I sense we're being punished.
@ Lucky- "He was a Brit who lived and Dallas", I think you meant to say he was a Brit who lived IN Dallas.
I can't find anything about their Business class but it seems like they fly their 767s mostly to St. Petersburg and Moscow. When looking on the Tajik Air website for dates in September economy round-trip to Moscow is around 450EUR, but when I look up for business class it says it is unavailable.
The planes you don't have identified are Il-76s, or something closely related. Soviet-era heavy airlift plane. They're pretty common in civilian service, too, for the niches where you need a military-style cargo plane. (Attempts to do the same with western airlifters have not fared well.) Uzbekistan Airways used to fly them, presumably for cargo.
@Lucky: The $25 VIP arrival service is very useful if you arrive at 3am on a full TK A321. Immigration is a complete mess then and arriving at the hotel by 3:45am instead of 5:30am is truly worth it ...
This is an airline at the bottom of my list of airlines to fly. Your reviews just reassured me of that !!!
Nice photos! Ohhhh the mountains of Tajikistan. Has been on my list for years and years.
Ben how could you possibly be cleared for take off by 8.45 am and Land by 8.20?
I agree that older planes have more legroom in Economy. Yesterday I flew from Jacksonville (Florida) to Dallas-Fort Worth on an American MD-80. I hadn't flown one in 5 years and the legroom was quite good (for ecomomy) and it had wifi. It also had power ports but they were DC power ports (not that most people need it for a nightime 2hr flight
The visa-on-arrival - did you arrive with the online e-visa completed and an approved form, or just with nothing at all?
Also - recently flew Uz airlines Tokyo-Tashkent-Tokyo. I sat in the back of economy, where there was a lot of room, except for several full 3-seater middle sections taken up by one Uz airlines staff - apparently the return flight crew flies out with the plane, takes up space in the back in free seats, usually full rows they lay in, usually having taken off their uniform clothes once the plane is airborne. One stewardess for the return flight plopped herself clear in the middle of the 3-seat empty middle section (preventing me from having it) and took herself a meal tray, opened the tray table, and proceeded to eat is as we took off from Tashkent.
Yep, that's Uz airways culture for you.
Uzbekistan Airways has no pilots traveling in the passenger cabin on the short flights - there were not a pilots, but the engineering staff. Also UzbAir has sky marshals too on some of the routes, so Your guess about them was true.