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Great Games in Central Asia
01 December 2005
Steve Thomson, editor of Concise Aerospace, the leading Russian aviation newswire, looks at the development of airlines in the central Asian states.
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The dismantling of the Soviet Aeroflot and the creation of new carriers has been a traumatic time for the industry and for some has marked their ultimate demise.
The development of carriers in the central Asian states, formed from the breakup of the Soviet Union, has been very different to those within the Russian Federation. With the slight exception of Uzbekistan, they do not have a domestic aerospace industry to protect, and the combination of weak economies, government interference, and poorly developed and applied strategies has added to their difficulties.
With a relatively free hand for acquisition, airlines in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan should have had considerably more scope to develop into efficient operators. The reality has been quite different. Each country has experienced a unique set of problems in developing an efficient air transport infrastructure.
Control of air transport has generally been retained...
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