This is the third aircraft of the series, the contract for which was signed with American air construction giant according to the Resolution of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in April 2014.
Long flight from Seattle (USA) was made by the crew of Turkmenhowayollary Service. The range of non-stop flights of Boeing -737-800 reaching 5660 kilometres allows making passenger flights to Moscow, Sankt Petersburg, Ankara, Istanbul, Delhi, Dubai, Kazan, Minsk, Almaty and other cities of Eurasian continent.
Comfortable and highly economic aircraft for 160 passengers is very different by the appearance from previous Boeing planes of the same class. Its speed is 850 kilometres per hour. Most advanced developments are used in navigation and electronic equipment.
It is worth mentioning that modernization of the infrastructure and technical rearmament of national civil aviation, which has an important role in passenger and cargo trafficking, both on domestic and international routes, are integral component of large-scale plans, which are steadily implemented in transport sphere.
Currently, national aviation fleet has such aircrafts of this famous brand as Boeing-757, Boeing-737, Boeing-717 including wide-body long-distance aircraft Boeing-737-300 ER.
Number of similar aircrafts will be systematically increased for the period of national Programme of the Development of Civil Aviation of Turkmenistan for 2012 – 2030 what in its turn will allow opening of new flights from Ashgabat (Italy), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Teheran (the Islamic Republic of Iran), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tashkent (the Republic of Uzbekistan) and other.
Long flight from Seattle (USA) was made by the crew of Turkmenhowayollary Service. The range of non-stop flights of Boeing -737-800 reaching 5660 kilometres allows making passenger flights to Moscow, Sankt Petersburg, Ankara, Istanbul, Delhi, Dubai, Kazan, Minsk, Almaty and other cities of Eurasian continent.
Comfortable and highly economic aircraft for 160 passengers is very different by the appearance from previous Boeing planes of the same class. Its speed is 850 kilometres per hour. Most advanced developments are used in navigation and electronic equipment.
It is worth mentioning that modernization of the infrastructure and technical rearmament of national civil aviation, which has an important role in passenger and cargo trafficking, both on domestic and international routes, are integral component of large-scale plans, which are steadily implemented in transport sphere.
Currently, national aviation fleet has such aircrafts of this famous brand as Boeing-757, Boeing-737, Boeing-717 including wide-body long-distance aircraft Boeing-737-300 ER.
Number of similar aircrafts will be systematically increased for the period of national Programme of the Development of Civil Aviation of Turkmenistan for 2012 – 2030 what in its turn will allow opening of new flights from Ashgabat (Italy), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Teheran (the Islamic Republic of Iran), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tashkent (the Republic of Uzbekistan) and other.
