// Gazeta.uz
The fog that enveloped the capital began to appear on Thursday and significantly worsened visibility at the airport. By evening, visibility dropped to less than 2000 meters, and by 19:30 it fell below 1000 meters (according to METAR data). At 20:30 visibility was 450 meters, at 21:00 it was 200 meters, and by 23:30 it decreased to 50 meters.
From 4:30 to 7:30, Tashkent airport managed to accept about 15 flights, but by 8:00 the situation worsened again, and visibility dropped back to 50 meters. At that time, several flights were waiting to land. Meanwhile, visibility in the city was normal. At 8:30, restrictions on incoming flights at the airport were lifted.
Uzhydromet reported that fog also covered Tashkent, Jizzakh, Bukhara, Navoi, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya, Syrdarya regions, and the Fergana Valley. In Bukhara, Karshi, Termez, Tashkent, Namangan, and Andijan, visibility was only 50−100 meters.
Uzbekistan Airports provided a list of night flights that were redirected to alternative 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-Termez — to Karshi;
- 7Q6062 Jeddah-Tashkent — to Andijan.
