With the new international airport in Khushig Valley coming into operation this year, the national capacity for air traffic is expected to increase by over 40 percent. This will help enable Mongolia to fulfill its action plan to receive one million tourists.

In addition, the direct Turkish airlines flights between Ulaanbaatar and Istanbul began yesterday on 1 January 2020.

From 2021, MIAT will start flying its new Boeing 787-9 aircraft to European and North American cities, opening up a whole raft of new possibilities for intrepid travellers.

Mongolia’s first cargo aircraft, a Boeing 737-700, began operation from Chinggis Khaan International Airport at Buyant-Ukhaa, just outside Ulaanbaatar, from July, 2019. Mongolia now makes cargo flights to Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hohhot, Seoul, Hong Kong, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude and the countries of Central Asia.