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 [...]
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Kazakhstan Bek Air’s operator’s certificate and certificates of airworthiness are withdrawn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 [...]
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 [...]
LCC FlyArystan to increase its fleet to 10 aircraft and the number of its destinations by a factor of five next year
Kazakhstan’s only budget airline is launching two more routes next month [...]
Air Astana switches Moscow airport to enhance relationship with S7 Airlines
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier is to transfer its flight operations from SVO to DME to build on its strategic partnership with Russia’s S7 [...]