// Gazeta.uz
The fog in the capital persisted throughout Thursday; however, by the second half of the day, visibility at the airport began to gradually decrease, reaching less than 2000 meters. By 19:30, it fell below 1000 meters (METAR data). At 20:30, visibility was 450 meters, and by 21:00, it was only 200 meters, decreasing to 50 meters by 23:30.
From 4:30 to 7:30, Tashkent airport managed to accept about 15 flights, but by 8:00, visibility worsened again to 50 meters, and at the time of preparing this material, several flights were waiting. Meanwhile, visibility in the city itself remained normal. Restrictions on flight arrivals at the airport were lifted at 8:30.
Uzhydromet also reported in the evening that fog was observed not only in Tashkent but also in regions such as Jizzakh, Bukhara, Navoi, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya, Syrdarya, and the Fergana Valley. In cities like Bukhara, Karshi, Termez, Tashkent, Namangan, and Andijan, visibility was only 50-100 meters.
Uzbekistan Airports provided a list of night flights that were forced to change their routes and land at alternate airfields:
- HY18 Nukus-Tashkent — redirected to Samarkand;
- HY58 Urgench-Tashkent — redirected to Samarkand;
- HY9834 Krasnodar-Namangan — redirected to Samarkand;
- QNT822 Seoul-Tashkent — redirected to Navoi;
- HY766 Almaty-Tashkent — redirected to Navoi;
- C6306 Istanbul-Tashkent — redirected to Samarkand;
- HY232 Frankfurt-Tashkent — redirected to Urgench;
- U62461 Moscow-Tashkent — redirected to Dushanbe;
- C6092 Urgench-Tashkent — returned to Urgench;
- 7Q3302 Jeddah-Tashkent — redirected to Samarkand;
- HY756 Baku-Tashkent — redirected to Navoi;
- AHY531 Baku-Tashkent — redirected to Astana;
- U62719 Irkutsk-Tashkent — redirected to Navoi;
- C63032 Medina-Tashkent — redirected to Samarkand;
- G9270 Sharjah-Tashkent — redirected to Almaty;
- PBD741 Moscow-Tashkent — redirected to Navoi;
- AFL1870 Moscow-Tashkent — redirected to Navoi;
- 9S4308 Jeddah-Tashkent — redirected to Dushanbe;
- FZ1941 Dubai-Tashkent — redirected to Almaty;
- HY650 Kazan-Tashkent — redirected to Karshi;
- HY9628 Moscow-Fergana — redirected to Karshi;
- HY9672 Novgorod-Tashkent — redirected to Urgench;
- UT805 Moscow-Tashkent — redirected to Dushanbe;
- THY370 Istanbul-Tashkent — redirected to Almaty;
- C63328 Jeddah-Termez — redirected to Karshi;
- 7Q6062 Jeddah-Tashkent — redirected to Andijan.
