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Sadyr Japarov’s visit to Beijing: How much does the flight cost

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov went to Beijing (PRC) by a private business jet, which he used to go to Glasgow (Scotland) last fall to attend theClimate Change Conference. Temirov Live investigation says.

On February 3, Sadyr Japarov arrived in Beijing on a working visit. According to Flightradar, on that day, an Embraer Lineage 1000 business class plane took off from Bishkek at 1 p.m., four and a half hours later (at 5.30 p.m. (Bishkek time) the plane landed at the international airport of the capital of China.

This time, the Presidential Executive Office did not publish a photo and the flight number of the private jet, but pictures of the head of state’s arrival in China appeared in the Chinese media. The photos also confirm that Sadyr Japarov arrived with a delegation on a private Embraer Lineage 1000, the average hourly rental price of which is $11,700.

The flight time to Beijing is 4.5 hours. If this time is multiplied by $11,700, it is $52,650 — 4,400 million soms. That’s just one way.

Last fall the President Sadyr Japarov went to the Climate Change Conference in Glasgow by the same Embraer Lineage 1000 private business class aircraft. Then he spent at least 16 million soms on the flight.

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