The OnBoard Courier for Uzbekistan

The scheduled network file behind this site holds departure data for one airport in Uzbekistan. The largest is Tashkent (TAS), with 98 scheduled destinations in 35 countries flown by 42 airlines and about 118.5 departures a day. That single airport carries 100 per cent of everything scheduled to leave the country, which is the first thing a desk needs to know: there is no realistic second gateway, so a cancellation there is a lost day.

Reach matters more than frequency for a hand carry, because a courier flies whatever is leaving. From TAS alone, 1,161 airports are reachable with exactly one change, on top of the 98 served nonstop. That is a normal spread for a well connected gateway, and it means a routing exists for most requests without waiting for a specific weekly service. It is computed from the scheduled network rather than from a booking engine.

22 per cent of everything scheduled to leave the country stays inside it, across 11 domestic destinations. That matters on a hand carry because it decides whether the last leg can be flown or has to be driven. A consignee outside the gateway city is then a connecting flight, not a four hour drive.

Outside its own borders the country is tied most closely to Russia, about 22.1 flights a day, Türkiye, about 12.9 flights a day, Kazakhstan, about 9.9 flights a day, China, about 8.2 flights a day and the United Arab Emirates, about 7.4 flights a day. Those are the markets a courier can reach from Uzbekistan without a long connection, and they are also where a third country leg most often starts: an item that has to go from Uzbekistan to somewhere with no direct service usually travels through one of them.

42 airlines fly out of Uzbekistan in this data. Counted by how many of the country's routes each one appears on, the widest networks belong to Uzbekistan Airways on 63 routes, Taban Airlines on 14 routes, AtlasGlobal UA on 9 routes, Elite Airways on 5 routes and Sun d'Or on 3 routes. The carrier matters to a hand carry more than it does to freight, because cabin baggage rules, what counts as an acceptable carry on item and whether an extra seat can be bought are set by the airline and not by the airport.

The longest single sector out of TAS in this data runs to New York, United States (JFK), 10,176 km by great circle. Great circle is not a flown distance and will read short against a real routing, but it is the honest way to state a reach: it says what one aircraft does without stopping, which is exactly the question a courier desk is asking.

Counting what is already published, this site holds 1 Atlas entry and 1 airport page for Uzbekistan, and every one of them is linked from this page. That is the point of a country index: the material exists, it was written one page at a time, and until now there was no single place that connected it.

Alongside the reference material there is the country desk page and the courier recruitment page for people who already fly this market. The coverage here is thin, and saying so is more useful than padding it. What exists is accurate; what is missing is missing because nothing on this desk has been written about it yet.