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Online check-in for Air Astana flights is now available 36 hours before departure

With effect from 21st September 2020, online check-in for Air Astana flights opens 36 hours before departure, rather than 24 hours previously, and ends one hour before departure. This service helps to avoid excessive build-up of passengers at airport check-in desks and also helps reduce the spread of COVID-19. Online check-in allows passengers to select […]

Air Astana Announces Intent To Buy 30 Boeing 737 MAX Airplanes

Air Astana intends to order 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes to serve as the backbone of its new low-cost airline FlyArystan, the Kazakh flag carrier and Boeing announced at the Dubai Airshow. The companies today signed a letter of intent for the 30 airplanes with a list price value of $3.6 billion. Since beginning operations […]

Air Astana takes delivery of its first A321LR

Air Astana, Kazakhstan’s flag carrier, has taken delivery of its first A321LR on lease from Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL). The A321LR will join Air Astana’s Airbus fleet of 18 Airbus aircraft (eight A320s, four A321s, three A320neo and three A321neo). Powered by Pratt & Whitney engines, Air Astana’s A321LR comprises 166 seats in a […]