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The first flight of the airline was from Bukhara to Dushanbe on 3 September 1924 by a Junkers F.13 aircraft, initiating the development of civil aviation in Tajikistan. The first aircraft appeared in the capital two years earlier than the car and five years earlier than the train. The Stalinabad airfield complex was created and the operation of new routes started over the Pamir mountain ranges. In 1930, a first-class airport was built in Dushanbe. One year later airports were built in Kulyab, Garm, Panj, and Dangara where regular flights were operated from Dushanbe. Aviation of Tajikistan developed rapidly as the air fleet expanded. Air transport became an essential branch of the country's national economy. Tajik aviation provided regular connections between the capital and the highland settlements in the hard-to-reach valleys of Vanch, Rushan, Shugnan, Bartang, Yagnob, and others, reducing the travel time of passengers of the mountain regions of the Pamirs, Karategin, blooming valleys of Vakhsh, Hissar by tens or hundreds of times. In March 1937, the Tajik Territorial Department of Civil Air Fleet was formed.

In 1945, the Tajik Department of Civil Air Fleet (TU GVF) received new Lisunov Li-2 and Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. The first flight by the crew of the Li-2 aircraft was operated on the route Stalinabad – Moscow. In the 1950s and 1960s, aviation in Tajikistan was one of the most developed sectors of the national economy of the Republic. From 1951, Antonov An-2s were utilized in the fleet of the Tajik Department of Civil Air Fleet and in 1954 Ilyushin Il-12s were introduced, by which the first flight on the route Stalinabad – Sochi was operated. Between 1956 and 1964, Ilyushin Il-14, Ilyushin Il-18 and Antonov An-6 (high-altitude version of the An-2) aircraft joined the fleet, as well as Mil Mi-4 helicopters.

Aviators of Tajikistan were always in the front line of development of the socio-economic potential of the country. For the first time in 1959, B.M. Vorobiev landed an aircraft (an An-6) on the ice of the Sarez Lake. In 1960, the first flight on the route Stalinabad – Moscow was operated by an Ilyushin Il-18. The TU GVF's structure was expanded and developed.

In 1959, the Leninabad aviation enterprise was founded and, in a year, the Kulyab airport was established. On March 3, 1960, the passenger terminal and runway were put into operation. The route Stalinabad – Frunze – Alma-Ata – Novosibirsk was opened. In the 1970s and '80s pilots and navigators of the Tajikistan Civil Aviation Authority mastered such aircraft as the Tupolev Tu-154, Yakovlev Yak-40, Antonov An-26 and Antonov An-28. In 1979 the first flight to Afghanistan was operated by an Il-18 aircraft on a humanitarian mission. In 1984 the automatic reservation system "Sirena" for booking seats on the domestic airlines was introduced. In 4 years, the Tajik Civil Aviation Authority changed over to the new conditions of management and planning.

Judging by the efficiency of the Yak-40 and An-28 aircraft utilization, the Tajik Civil Aviation Authority won first place in the USSR's Air Fleet. In the 1990-1991 period, the aircraft-helicopter fleet of the aviation enterprise was expanded with Ilyushin Il-76 and Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft; and Mil Mi-8 helicopters. Central Asia's first "Zardak" transponder was built and air service on the route Dushanbe-Ürümqi was opened.

On 14 January 2019, Tajik Air suspended all operations until it restarted in November 2019. However, Tajik Air suspended operations again on 14 September 2020 due to technical and financial difficulties. It has since been looking to restart again.

Destinations

Tajik Air serves the following destinations as of November 2020:

Country	City	Airport	Notes
Azerbaijan	Baku	Heydar Aliyev International Airport	Terminated
China	Ürümqi	Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport	Terminated
Egypt	Cairo	Cairo International Airport	Terminated
France	Paris	Charles de Gaulle Airport
Germany	Berlin	Tegel Airport	Terminated
	Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf Airport	Terminated
	Frankfurt	Frankfurt Airport	Terminated
	Munich	Munich Airport	Terminated
India	Delhi	Indira Gandhi International Airport	Suspended
Iran	Tehran	Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport	Terminated
Kazakhstan	Almaty	Almaty International Airport	Terminated
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Manas International Airport	Terminated
Pakistan	Islamabad	Benazir Bhutto International Airport	Terminated
Russia	Kazan	Kazan International Airport	Terminated
	Moscow	Moscow Domodedovo Airport	Suspended
	Novosibirsk	Tolmachevo Airport	Terminated
	Saint Petersburg	Pulkovo Airport	Terminated
	Surgut	Surgut International Airport	Terminated
	Yekaterinburg	Koltsovo International Airport	Terminated
Tajikistan	Bokhtar	Bokhtar International Airport	Terminated
	Dushanbe	Dushanbe International Airport	Hub
	Khorugh	Khorog Airport	Terminated
	Khujand	Khujand Airport	Terminated
	Kulob	Kulob Airport	Terminated
Turkey	Istanbul	Istanbul Airport
Ukraine	Kyiv	Boryspil International Airport	Terminated
United Kingdom	London	Heathrow Airport	Terminated
United Arab Emirates	Dubai	Dubai International Airport	Terminated
United Arab Emirates	Sharjah	Sharjah International Airport	Terminated
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Tashkent International Airport	Terminated

Fleet

Current fleet

As of February 2023, the Fleet of Tajik Air consisted of the following aircraft:

Tajik Air fleet
Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers
Antonov An-28	2	—	17
Mil Mi-8	1	—	24
Total	3	—

Former fleet

Tajik Air had in the past operated a variety of aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

On June 17, 1993, an Antonov An-26 crashed during the flight from Batumi, Georgia to Baku, Azerbaijan after it got into turbulence. All 33 people on board died.

On August 28, 1993, a Yakovlev Yak-40 crashed on take-off in Khorog while on a flight to Dushanbe. All 5 crew members and 77 of the 81 passengers died. The aircraft was configured to carry 28 passengers but was severely overloaded. The crew had been forced to take off by armed men.

On December 15, 1997, Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183, a Tupolev Tu-154B crashed at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, due to the landing approach being too low. Of the 86 people on board, only one survived, Sergei Petrov.