{"id":558469,"date":"2026-07-09T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558469"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:54:27","slug":"minsk-and-dushanbe-discuss-resuming-direct-air-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-and-dushanbe-discuss-resuming-direct-air-service","title":{"rendered":"Minsk and Dushanbe Discuss Resuming Direct Air Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The management of Minsk National Airport held a meeting with <b>Abdulqosim Valiev<\/b>, \u0433\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 director of the Tajik airline Somon Air. The sides discussed prospects for cooperation and the possibility of launching direct flights between Minsk and Dushanbe.<\/p>\n<p>The airport\u2019s chief executive, <b>Uladzimir Charaukhin<\/b>, said that expanding the route network is one of the airport\u2019s key strategic objectives. Following the meeting, the parties expressed their readiness to develop bilateral cooperation, the airport\u2019s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/MinskNationalAirport\/3133\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Somon Air is Tajikistan\u2019s national carrier, based at Dushanbe International Airport. In 2021, the airline already operated flights on the Dushanbe\u2013Minsk route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Minsk National Airport held a meeting with Abdulqosim Valiev, \u0433\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 director of the Tajik airline Somon Air. The sides discussed prospects for cooperation and the possibility of launching direct flights between Minsk and Dushanbe. The airport\u2019s chief executive, Uladzimir Charaukhin, said that expanding the route network is one of the airport\u2019s key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":558468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4fa81760692.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk and Dushanbe Discuss Resuming Direct Air Service"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[143118,143096],"class_list":["post-558469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business","tag-belarus","tag-minsk"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}