DUSHANBE, September 14, 2011, Asia-Plus -- Tajik air company, Somon Air, will launch a new air route to Russia next month.  

According to the company press center, Somon Air will launch one-weekly service to Krasnodar, the administrative center of Russia’s Krasnodar Krai beginning on October 6.  The flight will be operated on Thursdays.      

Somon Air is an airline based in Dushanbe.  It is Tajikistan''s first private airline.  Somon Air is also the first airline in Tajikistan to launch an online booking system. The airline uses the Boeing 737 in its fleet.

Somon Air now operates to the following destinations: China (Urumqi); Germany (Frankfurt am Main); Kazakhstan (Almaty); Russia (Khanty-Mansisysk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Orenburg, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg); Saudi Arabia (Jeddah); Tajikistan (Khujand); Turkey (Istanbul); Ukraine (Simferopol); and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai).