// Gazeta.uz
The fog situation was observed throughout Thursday, and visibility at the airport began to rapidly decrease in the afternoon. By 19:30, it fell below 1000 meters, and by 20:30 it was only 450 meters. By 23:30, visibility had decreased to 50 meters.
From 4:30 to 7:30, Tashkent airport managed to accept about 15 flights; however, by 8:00 visibility worsened again to 50 meters, leaving several flights waiting. At the same time, conditions in the city were quite normal. By 8:30, the restrictions on flight arrivals at the airport were lifted.
According to Uzhydromet data, fog was observed not only in Tashkent but also in other regions, including Jizzakh, Bukhara, Navoi, Kashkadarya, and Surkhandarya, as well as in the Fergana Valley. In cities such as Bukhara, Karshi, and Termez, visibility was only 50−100 meters.
Uzbekistan Airports provided a list of night flights that were redirected to alternate airfields:
- HY18 Nukus-Tashkent — to Samarkand;
- HY58 Urgench-Tashkent — to Samarkand;
- HY9834 Krasnodar-Namangan — to Samarkand;
- QNT822 Seoul-Tashkent — to Navoi;
- HY766 Almaty-Tashkent — to Navoi;
- C6306 Istanbul-Tashkent — to Samarkand;
- HY232 Frankfurt-Tashkent — to Urgench;
- U62461 Moscow-Tashkent — to Dushanbe;
- C6092 Urgench-Tashkent — returned to Urgench;
- 7Q3302 Jeddah-Tashkent — to Samarkand;
- HY756 Baku-Tashkent — to Navoi;
- AHY531 Baku-Tashkent — to Astana;
- U62719 Irkutsk-Tashkent — to Navoi;
- C63032 Medina-Tashkent — to Samarkand;
- G9270 Sharjah-Tashkent — to Almaty;
- PBD741 Moscow-Tashkent — to Navoi;
- AFL1870 Moscow-Tashkent — to Navoi;
- 9S4308 Jeddah-Tashkent — to Dushanbe;
- FZ1941 Dubai-Tashkent — to Almaty;
- HY650 Kazan-Tashkent — to Karshi;
- HY9628 Moscow-Fergana — to Karshi;
- HY9672 Novgorod-Tashkent — to Urgench;
- UT805 Moscow-Tashkent — to Dushanbe;
- THY370 Istanbul-Tashkent — to Almaty;
- C63328 Jeddah-Termiz — to Karshi;
- 7Q6062 Jeddah-Tashkent — to Andijan.
