On September 8, the airport in Naryn, the main city of the Naryn region in central-east Kyrgyzstan, opened after major reconstruction with the launch of regular Bishkek-Naryn-Bishkek flights operated by state-owned Asman Airlines.
All regional airports built in Kyrgyzstan in the Soviet time were never repaired until the most recent time, and the Naryn airport ceased operations in 1999.
At the opening ceremony, President Sadyr Japarov said that with the reopening of the Naryn airport, all regional airports in Kyrgyzstan have been revived and are now in operation.
Japarov noted that the reconstructed Naryn airport will improve the transport connectivity of this mountainous region and increase its investment appeal, facilitating the arrival of foreign entrepreneurs and tourists to Naryn.
Japarov also spoke about the government’s efforts to remove Kyrgyzstan from the European Union’s black list. On October 7, a delegation of the Civil Aviation Agency will meet with European Commission officials in Brussels, and the final audit by the EU is expected to take place in Kyrgyzstan in December 2025. Kyrgyz airlines are currently banned to fly to the EU for flight safety reasons.
“We firmly believe that the European sky will reopen for Kyrgyzstan after being closed since 2006. This will mean that our country will become accessible to millions of tourists from Europe. Kyrgyzstan will enter a huge market that values clean nature, ancient culture, and new destinations,” said Japarov.
He also added that on August 20, an agreement was signed between Kyrgyzstan and China on a new air corridor passing through the Naryn region. This corridor will start operating on October 30. It will halve the distance from China’s Kashgar to all airports in Central Asia. This will significantly expand Kyrgyzstan’s transit capabilities and turn the country into a strategic air bridge.
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