On January 10, China's Zhejiang Loong Airlines completed its inaugural direct flight to Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, from Chengdu. It is the first international non-stop flight Chengdu has launched so far this year.

 

The service operates three times a week. The outbound flights departing from Chengdu, numbered GJ8791, leave at 15:10 and arrive in Tashkent at 18:10, with a total flight time of around 6 hours. While the inbound ones departing from Tashkent, numbered GJ8792, leave at 19:40 and arrive in Chengdu at 03:50 next day, with a total flight time of around 5 hours (All the time mentioned above is local time).