The Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) has honoured Air Astana with a five-star rating in the major airline category, with the ceremony being held in Los Angeles on 20 September 2023. This is the ninth time that Air Astana has received an APEX award. The APEX award was based on third-party passenger reviews undertaken in […]
Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) have announced long-term lease placements for three new Boeing 787-9 aircraft with Air Astana, the national carrier of Kazakhstan. The aircraft are scheduled to deliver to Air Astana beginning in early 2025 through spring 2026 from ALC’s order book with Boeing. “We are pleased to announce this lease placement for […]
One of Air Astana’s Airbus A321neo LR in flight. Image: Airbus Air Astana’s ninth Airbus A321LR arrived in Almaty, Kazakhstan from Hamburg on 15 October 2022, with a tenth aircraft scheduled for delivery before the end of the year. The first Airbus A321LR was delivered to Air Astana in October 2019.The latest aircraft is on […]
Air Astana will inaugurate new services between Kazakhstan and Montenegro on June 9th. Flights to Podgorica, Montenegro’s capital, will operate from Nur-Sultan on Wednesdays and Saturdays and from Almaty on Thursdays and Sundays. All flights will be operated by new Airbus A321LR aircraft. Flights from Nur-Sultan are scheduled to depart at 09:00 and arrive in […]
Air Astana will cut a number of flights in the coming weeks on the orders of the domestic ministry of health. The number of flights to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine and Germany will be cut from today. The weekly frequency of flights to Istanbul will decrease from 16 to 12, weekly services to […]
Air Astana has taken delivery of the second of five new generation Embraer E190-E2 aircraft covered under a leasing agreement signed with Aercap in 2017. The remaining three aircraft are scheduled for delivery by the end of 2019. The Embraer E190-E2 aircraft will gradually replace older Embraer E190s in the fleet. Air Astana operates the […]
Air Astana, the flag carrier of Kazakhstan, presented its first E190-E2 jet in a ceremony held on 14th December in Astana. The airline will receive four additional E190-E2s next year, with the last of the five aircraft, leased by AerCap, being delivered in the final quarter of 2019. The Kazakhstan airline will start flying the […]
This article was written by Andreas Spaeth and first published on Airline Ratings. Air Astana boss Peter Foster is beaming. The 57-year-old Englishman and industry veteran has seen the national airline of Kazakhstan develop into Central Asia’s most successful carrier since taking office in 2005. During that time, he has relentlessly worked to establish a […]
Air Astana, Kazakhstan’s flag carrier, has taken delivery of its first A320neo at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse in the presence of airline executives and government officials. The aircraft leased from Air Lease Corporation is part of a deal announced at Farnborough Airshow 2015 for 11 A320neo Family aircraft. The A320neo will join Air Astana’s Airbus […]
