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Jan 29, 2019 (newstodate): Tajik Air is in dire financial strains and on the very brink of bankruptcy.
In a last-ditch efforts to save the state-owned carrier, the Tajik government has now named a new Tajik Air CEO: Dilshod Ismatullozoda.
The main benefit from the change of CEO may be that Dilshod Ismatullozoda has the best of relations with the state, being close to the president's family.
As reported by the Tajik media Radio Ozodi, Mr Ismatullozoda said that he had yet to acquaint himself with the status of the carrier.
-I need to study the situation. I will try not to let down the president and to improve the state of the airline. This is a new area for me and I need to take time before I talk to the media, he said.
The airline is in dire needs of investments, operating at heavy debts and with a basically obsolete aircraft fleet of 34 units, including three rotary-wing aircraft.
Of the total number of aircraft, only four are in a healthy shape, six are stuck on ground with maintenance problems, and 21 are stored.
As for the three helicopters, only one is operational.
In a last-ditch efforts to save the state-owned carrier, the Tajik government has now named a new Tajik Air CEO: Dilshod Ismatullozoda.
The main benefit from the change of CEO may be that Dilshod Ismatullozoda has the best of relations with the state, being close to the president's family.
As reported by the Tajik media Radio Ozodi, Mr Ismatullozoda said that he had yet to acquaint himself with the status of the carrier.
-I need to study the situation. I will try not to let down the president and to improve the state of the airline. This is a new area for me and I need to take time before I talk to the media, he said.
The airline is in dire needs of investments, operating at heavy debts and with a basically obsolete aircraft fleet of 34 units, including three rotary-wing aircraft.
Of the total number of aircraft, only four are in a healthy shape, six are stuck on ground with maintenance problems, and 21 are stored.
As for the three helicopters, only one is operational.