National airline Uzbekistan Airways will launch direct flights from Nukus to Istanbul. It is said that the flights will be carried out once a week - on Mondays.

Flynas and Qeshm Air airlines have temporarily suspended flights to Uzbekistan due to the closure of the Iranian airspace. Jeddah-Tashkent-Jeddah and Tehran-Tashkent-Tehran flights on Thursday were cancelled. Uzbekistan Airways operates flights bypassing the airspace of Iraq and Iran.

Uzbekistan Airways has introduced new flight routes to Europe based on a report from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Now, planes will bypass Russian airspace and fly via Azerbaijan and Turkey.