Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s national airline grouping has taken delivery of its ninth Airbus А321LR [...]
Air Astana performs first in-house C-Check at Nur-Sultan MRO facility
Kazakhstan’s national carrier takes more heavy checks back home [...]
EBRD finances Kazakh flag carrier’s maintenance and training centre
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lends US$50 million to Air Astana [...]
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana returns to profit, but cautious on the remainder of the year
Domestic passengers grew 31 per cent over 2019 [...]
Kazakhstan to complete Boeing 737 MAX airworthiness assessment in February
Central Asian country’s only type operator SCAT is gearing up for test flights this week [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan targets to double traffic this year
Air Astana’s LCC division FlyArystan proceeds on its expansion path with plans to add more aircraft and launch new routes [...]
Kazakh LCC FlyArystan’s fleet grows to seven aircraft
Air Astana’s low-cost division continues expansion [...]
Air Astana expands A320neo support contract with GA Telesis
Kazakhstan’s national carrier has signed for Flight Hour programme for its entire neo fleet [...]
Kazakhstan resumes international air connection
Air Astana is re-launching flights to Georgia, South Korea and Turkey starting June 20 [...]
Air Astana launches a dedicated airfreight division
Air Astana Cargo to operate a fleet of three partly converted Boeing 767-300s [...]
Kazakhstan’s major airlines resume flights to regional centres
The airlines do not restrict the use of the 'middle seat' or require a COVID-19-negative certificate [...]
Kazakh low-cost carrier FlyArystan abandons ‘expensive’ Taraz services
The central Asian country’s only budget airline has suspended services to Taraz, an airport managed by a rival business [...]
Kazakhstan to cautiously re-launch its air transport industry
The country’s domestic air travel market has been in full lockdown for more than a month [...]
Kazakhstan Bek Air’s operator’s certificate and certificates of airworthiness are withdrawn
The Aviation Administration of the central Asian country says the airline has failed to rectify safety shortcomings [...]
Kazakhstan to digitise its civil aviation regulatory management system
Country’s aviation authority has partnered with US and UK-based software specialist to deliver a framework for the digital management of its aviation regulations [...]
The Civil Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan says the country’s airlines have lost an estimated US$551 million
CAAKZ: the air transport sector needs state support because of the Coronavirus crisis [...]
S7 Technics to perform heavy maintenance work on Air Astana’s Boeing 757s
The Russian company is the only MRO provider beyond Urals qualified for the type's heavy maintenance [...]
CIS states close their borders and suspend air connections
Belarus is the only nation in the region to describe closing borders as ‘nonsense’ [...]
Opinion: Peter Griffiths, director general at Aviation administration of Kazakhstan
View of the current challenges facing the aviation industry [...]
Kazakhstan develops domestic market as all international air connections suspended
Central Asian country suspends all international routes until April 15 [...]
Air Astana takes delivery of its first new aircraft this year
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier brings in another Airbus A321LR [...]
Start-up budget carrier saves Kazakhstan’s passenger business from stagnation
Overall, the country’s aviation industry grew last year, but local airlines contributed only a little to the improvement [...]
Kazakhstan’s airlines may now register their aircraft in Bermuda
The country’s aviation authority has signed the relevant ICAO 83bis agreement [...]
Air Astana Group’s net profits took off in 2019
Performance was spurred mainly by increased demand for domestic services [...]
Traffic through Kazakhstan’s airports grew by 13 per cent last year
The growth is attributable to the launch of new routes, lower fares, improved transfer connections and infrastructure development [...]
Launch of low-cost division lifts Air Astana Group’s traffic by 17 per cent
Without the inclusion of its FlyArystan subsidiary’s operational performance, Kazakhstan’s national carrier grew by a mere one per cent last year [...]
Safety violations found in Kazakhstan’s Bek Air operations
The airline has been given six months to eliminate airworthiness shortcomings following the recent crash of its Fokker 100 [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan carried 700,580 passengers in its first eight months
The central Asian country’s start-up budget airline is planning to grow its A320 fleet from four to 10 aircraft in 2020 [...]
Sigma Airlines to operate Kazakhstan’s first Boeing 747 freighter
The private Kazakh cargo airline adds a jumbo freighter to its fleet of Ilyushin IL-76 and Airbus A300 aircraft [...]
A Bek Air Fokker 100 crashes on take-off from Almaty
12 people dead and dozens injured [...]
Kazakhstan’s Qazaq Air’s passenger traffic grew by 24 per cent in 2019
But competition with fellow discounter FlyArystan left it short of its target [...]
Kazakhstan to assemble initial batch of Mil Mi-8 helicopters
Russian Helicopters to supply 17 kits for final assembly in the central Asian republic [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan brings in a fourth aircraft and performs its first international flight
Zhukovsky, near to Moscow, is the Kazakh low-cost carrier’s first international destination [...]
Air Astana Group’s preliminary 2019 operational results suggest a ‘break-through’ year
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier and its LCC division have served an estimated 17% more passengers this year and anticipate further growth in 2020 [...]
Kazakhstan’s low-cost FlyArystan reveals its 2020 summer season plans
The budget airline is offering more than a million seats to 13 destinations [...]
Qazaq Air confirms its safety compliance with IATA standards
The state-owned Kazakh regional carrier has renewed its IOSA operator status up to November 2021 [...]
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana completes first in-house Airbus A320neo C-Check
Russian MRO specialist S7 Technics assisted the process at Almaty Airport [...]
Air Astana to launch new services from Almaty to Paris
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier will operate its new long-range A321neo LR narrow-body on the route [...]
Interview: Peter Foster, president and chief executive of Air Astana
‘When I entered the airline industry, it was inconceivable that I might end up running an airline in what was then in the Soviet Union’ [...]
All-Airbus operator FlyArystan to operate Boeing 737 MAX 8s
Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana, which is the owner of the LCC, is to order 30 B737 MAX 8s [...]
Air Astana completes its Embraer E190-E2 delivery contract
The Kazakhstan flag carrier now has five of the new-generation jets in its fleet [...]
FlyArystan carries 455,000 passengers in its first six months of service
Kazakhstan’s first low-cost carrier stimulates domestic market growth [...]
Kazakhstan opens its skies for foreign carriers at 11 airports
The regime is initially on a three-year trial basis and effects routes not serviced by Kazakh operators [...]
Air Astana extends its power-by-the-hour arrangement with AJW Group
A 14th year of PBH collaboration with aircraft spares specialist [...]
Kazakhstan air passenger numbers will reach 20 million by 2038, says IATA
The Central Asian country will overtake the likes of Croatia, Bulgaria and Cyprus [...]
Low-cost FlyArystan receives its third aircraft and opens its 10th destination
The Kazakhstan start-up carrier is also preparing to launch flights to Moscow [...]
Russia’s Spektr-Avia Technic to service Kazakhstan-registered aircraft
The MRO specialist has won OTAR Part 145-approval from the aviation authorities of Kazakhstan [...]
Air Astana’s Airbus fleet grows to 20 narrow-body aircraft
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier has taken delivery of its fourth A321neo [...]
Air Astana becomes the first CIS operator of the long-range version of the A321neo
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier has a total of seven of the A321neo LR aircraft on order [...]
LLC FlyArystan to base two A320s in western Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s only budget airline is to open a base at Aktobe [...]