Market notes
On chartering from Tashkent
Tashkent has become one of the fastest-growing airports in the former Soviet Union. Passenger numbers went from 6.8 million in 2023 to 8,716,526 in 2024, a 28 percent jump, and to about 9.99 million in 2025, with flights up around 15 percent. Two runways of 4,000 m and 3,905 m handle anything in service, and a merged terminal complex designed for 2,400 passengers an hour has been in planning to replace the split arrangement where international and domestic buildings sit on opposite sides of the runway.
Business aviation has just been given its own airport. Tashkent-Vostochny reopened as Tashkent-Humo on 27 August 2025 after a rebuild covering the runway, three taxiways, the apron and new VIP and CIP terminals across a 561 hectare site, and since 17 February 2026 charter operators have been required by permanent NOTAM to file Humo rather than the main airport. Runway 08/26 is published at 3,240 m and rated PCN 42/R/A/X/T, which accepts An-124 and Il-76 class aircraft, so nothing in business aviation is constrained. Transfer time to the centre is 25 to 30 minutes.
The route pattern splits three ways. Short domestic and regional sectors to Samarkand, Bukhara, Almaty and Bishkek sit comfortably in light jets. Dubai and Doha are the volume long sectors, flown on super-midsize and heavy aircraft. And Moscow has grown into a significant corridor since 2022, with Uzbek and Russian operators carrying traffic that used to move through European hubs. Tashkent is one of the CIS cities that has absorbed that redirected demand.
Anything touching Russia is handled differently here. We quote those sectors case by case, subject to full sanctions and KYC screening, and the operators flying them are generally Uzbek, Russian or other CIS based rather than EU or US based. EASA advises against operating in Russian airspace west of 60 degrees East at all flight levels, and aircraft that work Russian sectors are kept out of EU, UK and US rotations afterwards, which is why pricing on the Moscow corridor does not track normal per-hour benchmarks.