Residents of Khorezm buy 290 tickets for an uncoordinated flight
Information about the crowd of people at the Urgench international airport has gone viral on social networks.
Photo: RIA Novosti
As the press service of Uzbekistan Airports reports, on November 4 of this year, starting from about 02:00, passengers began arriving at the Urgench international airport to fly with the intention of flight IFly Russian airline on the route Urgench - Moscow.
However, this flight was not on the schedule. According to passengers, all of them purchased tickets through the Avia Market company. A total of 290 tickets were sold for the charter flight.
“Employees of the Urgench airport placed all passengers in the departure hall, installed additional chairs and benches, and also contacted the company that sold the tickets, demanded to provide passengers with all the necessary information and resolve the situation. As it turned out, the Avia Market company did not coordinate the flight with the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan and did not prepare the necessary documentation,” the report reads.
It is noted that at the moment, the situation has been resolved, an A-330 aircraft flew from Moscow to Urgench. Registration has been announced at the airport.
The company also reminded that Uzbekistan Airports has nothing to do with the sale of air tickets.
Earlier it was reported that in Uzbekistan, the travel company sold about 200 people air tickets for a non-existent flight.
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