Asian Express Airline (Tajikistan) (TXP, Dushanbe) has been designated one of two new Tajik carriers able to operate flights from the Central Asian nation to Russia. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, Asian Express Airline has been assigned to operate regular flights on on the following return routes: Dushanbe to Volgograd, Dushanbe to Mineralnye Vody, Dushanbe to Nizhny Novgorod Strigino and Dushanbe to Rostov Platov. Also listed are: Khudzhand to Volgograd, Khudzhand to Mineralnye Vody, Khudzhand to Nizhny Novgorod and Khudzhand to Rostov-on-Don. Asian Express operates a Western fleet of three A320-200s, four ARJ100s and one ARJ85.