Uzbekistan’s civil aviation authority (O’zaviatsiya Agentligi) has emphatically denied rumours that have been spreading online about the emergence of a new airline in the country by the name of Panorama Airways (5P, Tashkent International). Online sources had claimed that two A320-200s were already in Tashkent undergoing pre-delivery maintenance while an ex-Singapore Airlines B777-300 - ER-77739 (msn 32327) - was being prepared in Bishkek.
“Reports in the mass media about the creation of a new airline in Uzbekistan, Panorama Airways, and its imminent performance of flights on Airbus A320 and Boeing B777 aircraft is not true,” the authority said on June 29.
It stressed that “in order to carry out any activities related to the use of aircraft in civil aviation, the requirements of Article 44 of the Air Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and [regulations] approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, any legal entity or individual must obtain an air operator’s certificate from O’zaviatsiya Agentligi in the prescribed manner.”
“The organisation calling itself Panorama Airways has not yet submitted an application to the agency to obtain an air operator’s certificate or documentation on leasing aircraft,” it added. “Thus, the reports published in the mass media about the establishment of such an airline in Uzbekistan are not true.”
According to an entry in Uzbekistan’s state register of enterprises, EGRPO, Panorama Airways was established in July 2021 with an authorised capital of UZS480,188,000 soums (USD44,000). The sole registered founder is one Vakhora Kodirova and the chief executive is named as Aziz Safiullin. The main field of activity is “air passenger transport.”
A tender document that Uzbekistan Airways (HY, Tashkent International) listed on its website in October 2019 named Aziz Safiullin as the flag carrier’s first deputy chairman for strategic, information, and innovation.
