Tajik Air
Tajikistan · Active
Airline Identity
History
Tajik Air's roots trace to Soviet-era civil aviation dating from 1924, and it became Tajikistan's national flag carrier after the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, inheriting Aeroflot's regional fleet and infrastructure. It has had a troubled safety record, including fatal crashes in 1993 (twice) and 1997 that killed a combined total of well over 150 people, and it has struggled financially for much of its post-Soviet history. The airline suspended commercial operations twice in recent years — in January 2019 and again in September 2020 — before beginning a gradual, limited restart of domestic flights from October 2024.
Current Operations
Tajik Air operates only a very limited schedule as of 2025–2026. The state-owned carrier suspended most operations in September 2020 amid financial and technical difficulties (its second suspension, after an earlier one in January 2019) and did not fully recover afterward. It resumed a narrow domestic service in October 2024, initially flying the Dushanbe–Khorog route, with plans announced to add Kulyab and Panjakent from early 2025; total scheduled destinations remain around five. Its reported fleet is very small — around four aircraft, including a Boeing 737-300, a Boeing 757-200, a Boeing 767-300 and a Xian MA60 — a fraction of the international network it operated in earlier decades. Tajik Air remains the flag carrier of Tajikistan and is wholly owned by the Tajik government, but its role has been substantially eclipsed by other Tajik carriers on international routes.
Last verified 2026-09-02· Source: airline public disclosures, company press releases & aviation-industry reporting.