The Latvian company said the flight will be carried out twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Bertolt Flick, President and CEO of airBaltic: "After two years of successful cooperation with Uzbekistan Airways, we expand it, opening new flights from Riga to Tashkent." He added that the number of flights increased to three flights a week between these cities.

airBaltic flies to nine cities of former Soviet Union in cooperation with national airlines like Air One, Aeroflot, AeroSvit Airlines, Azerbaijan AirlinesAZAL, Belavia, Donbassaero, Pulkovo Airlines, Rossija Airlines and Georgian Airways.