Sariosiyo (ICAO: UTSR), a regional airport in southern Uzbekistan, has reopened for commercial aviation on May 30 after a 30-year hiatus, with the first flight, operated by the regional carrier Silk Avia, bringing in 48 passengers from Tashkent.

The airline (part of Uzbekistan Airways Group) will be serving the route twice weekly, with ATR-72-600 turboprops, Uzbekistan Airports said.

Sariosiyo was closed to commercial flights in 1995. In the months leading up to the reopening, the airport's airside pavements – the single 1550-meter-long and 35-meter-wide runway, taxiway, and apron with two aircraft stands – were repaved. A new 1,100-square-meter terminal accommodating up to 100 passengers was built and inaugurated.

Sariosiyo is the fifth regional airport to have been reopened to revenue operations in Uzbekistan in the past several years. It follows in the footsteps of Muynak, Kokand, Shakhrisabz, and Zaamin.