Private Uzbek airline Qanot Sharq (IATA code: HH) has announced the temporary suspension of some flights to Russia.

From January 20 to March 6 there will be no flights to Moscow from Tashkent, Bukhara, Namangan, Samarkand and Fergana. The carrier will also stop flying from Namangan and Samarkand to St. Petersburg.

The airline explained such measures by the need to withdraw two Airbus A320 airplanes, which were used on Russian flights, for maintenance in the form of C-check.

The airliners will go for labor-intensive maintenance one by one, so they will not be able to fully support all Russian destinations.

The carrier uses the rest of its aircraft - two Airbus A321neo and a wet-leased wide-body A330 - on routes to the Middle East and Asia.