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May 20, 2019 (newstodate): Entering 2019 in dire financial strains and on the very brink of bankruptcy, Tajik Air is optimistically planning for a return to the skies later this year.
   Hopes are to launch commercial services again from August 2019 to offer Hajj transport services to Mecca and Medina.
   The airline operates 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.
   According to the government, a scrutiny of the airline's assets  have identified illiquid resources that will be sold to generate cash for a revival of the airline.
   In January 2019, the Tajik government 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, while he is admittedly stepping in with no prior knowledge of the aviation industry.