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Aeroflot launches flights from Moscow to Izmir

Aeroflot launches flights from Moscow to Izmir

Aeroflot planes will start flying between Moscow and Izmir from the end of May. Flights will be operated four times a week by Boeing 737 aircraft. The first flight is scheduled for May 27, and tickets are already on sale.

 Baku-Istanbul flight makes unscheduled stop

Baku-Istanbul flight makes unscheduled stop

The captain of the aircraft operating Buta Airways flight J2 9105 on the Baku-Istanbul route (Sabiha Gokcen Airport) decided to land in Ankara due to heavy snowfall at the destination airport, according to the press service of Buta …

Five dead in bus accident in Turkiye's Diyarbakir

Five dead in bus accident in Turkiye's Diyarbakir

Five people died and 22 others were injured as a passenger bus overturned in southeastern Turkiye. The accident occurred on the 65th kilometer of Diyarbakir-Silvan highway. A large number of ambulances, rescuers and police …

China establishes shortest sea route to Iran

China establishes shortest sea route to Iran

Today, the first container ship from China docked in the Iranian port of Chabahar, thus the opening of the shortest sea route for the transportation of Chinese goods through Iran has taken place. Previously, Chinese container ships …

Six new airports for domestic flights to appear in Uzbekistan

Six new airports for domestic flights to appear in Uzbekistan

Six new airports for domestic flights will be created in Uzbekistan, Rano Juraeva, head of Uzbekistan Airports, said at the conference "Asia Connect: Airline Network Development in a New Reality" in Samarkand. Air harbors …

Russia and Iran looking to build civil aircraft

Russia and Iran looking to build civil aircraft

Moscow and Tehran are considering setting up joint ventures in Iran that would allow them to design and build airliners with 100 seats and fewer, Iranian Deputy Industry Minister Manouchehr Manteghi reportedly said Tuesday. Manteghi was …

Türkiye demands insurance documents from oil tankers

Türkiye demands insurance documents from oil tankers

Turkey will continue to demand insurance documents from tankers passing through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits. This was reported in the Directorate-General of Maritime Affairs of the Turkish Ministry of Transport, TASS …

Direct flights to connect Iran and Uzbekistan

Direct flights to connect Iran and Uzbekistan

Iranian airline Qeshm Air will start operating direct flights between Tehran and two cities of Uzbekistan - Tashkent and Samarkand - from December 22. Uzbekistan Airports reported that the opening of flights was the result of agreements …

Almaty authorities to buy 300 new buses

Almaty authorities to buy 300 new buses

Almaty will buy 300 new buses soon, acting akim Erbolat Dosaev said . "We are updating the rolling stock. We will buy 300 buses", he said. Residents of the city complained that only one bus 74 runs along Magnitnaya …

New line may cut Ankara-Istanbul travel to 80 minutes

New line may cut Ankara-Istanbul travel to 80 minutes

The Turkish government has given the green light to a high-speed train line that will reduce the journey between Ankara and Istanbul to 80 minutes in the near future. It has been reported that the Ministry of Transport has started …

Tourist flow grows in Turkish cruise industry

Tourist flow grows in Turkish cruise industry

The number of cruise ships moored in Turkish ports for 10 months of this year has reached 907, Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoglu said. According to him, a total of 918,484 passengers arrived on board cruise …

Seven killed in bus crash in eastern Turkey

Seven killed in bus crash in eastern Turkey

At least seven people were killed and 11 others injured when a truck collided with a passenger bus in Turkey’s eastern Agri province on Monday. “Seven of our citizens have passed away after a bus crashed with a truck and …