Somon Air’s 6.5 Hour Boeing Flight Connecting Germany & Tajikistan

Somon Air, a non-public airline from Tajikistan, has began an everyday service to Munich Worldwide Airport (MUC) from its foremost base in Dushanbe. The airline has began the service with only one flight per week for now, with plans to double the frequency in coming months. Let’s examine additional.

Ulrich Theis, Director Passenger and Route Growth at Munich Airport, mentioned,

The main points

Somon Air is working flights on this route on each Monday in the meanwhile. Flights will depart from Dushanbe Worldwide Airport (DYU) at 06:00 for the 6.5-hour journey west, and land at MUC 09:30. The return leg of the journey commences after a turnaround time of simply two hours, at 11:30 for a night arrival into DYU at 20:30. All instances are talked about in accordance with native time zones.

Somon Air is the one airline working this route. Picture: GCMapper

The primary leg of the journey will probably be operated as flight SZ 121, whereas the return journey is designated as flight SZ 122. Moreover, Somon Air plans on rising this route’s frequency to twice-weekly from subsequent month onwards.

Somon Air will use its Boeing 737-900ER plane for the brand new route. The aircraft is outfitted in a two-class configuration with 16 enterprise class, and 168 financial system class seats. It will probably fly round 5,400 km (3,355 miles) directly, making it the one plane in Somon Air’s fleet able to flying the DYU-MUC route, which is available in at 4,700 km (almost 2,900 miles).

Certainly, the two,900-mile flying distance makes this flight one of many world’s longest routes operated on a Boeing 737. The feat is much more spectacular contemplating the truth that Somon Air’s service is operated on an older 737 mannequin, as a substitute of the newer MAX variants. In August final yr, Easy Flying made an inventory of the world’s longest Boeing 737 routes, and eight of the highest 10 entries have been operated on MAX planes.

An all-Boeing 737 airline

Somon Air has a comparatively small fleet of simply six plane, all of that are from the Boeing 737 household. Along with the 2 737-900ERs, Somon Air additionally operates a pair of 737-800s and 737-300s. The airline predominantly makes use of the longer-range -800 and -900 variants on most worldwide routes, like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tehran, Delhi, Istanbul, and Dubai, amongst others.

The -900ERs are the one planes in Somon Air’s fleet to have a enterprise class cabin, whereas the -800 and -300 variants each are all-economy plane fitted with 189 and 148 seats, respectively. Somon Air was set to buy Boeing’s 737 MAX plane a couple of years in the past, however later determined to cancel its total order following two lethal crashes in 2019. Nonetheless, the airline’s CEO has hinted towards a potential order for the fashionable airliners lately.