Kazakhstan will launch several international flights in 2018, the Civil Aviation Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development said. In 2018 foreign airlines, including Air Baltic, Emirates, Fly Dubai, Aeroflot and Angara plan to launch regular Riga-Almaty, Dubai-Almaty, Dubai-Aktau, Moscow-Kyzylorda and Krasnoyarsk-Almaty flights. Besides, Finnair will resume the Astana-Helsinki flights, the Committee said.…
The development of the route network from Astana is facing the risk of losing foreign airlines which may reduce flights to Kazakhstan, Ibrahim Canliel , Chief Financial Officer at Air Astana said at a press conference on January18. “Over the past years, many airlines like Austrian Airlines, Asiana, KLM have canceled their flights to Astana,…
The National Company KazMunayGas JSC and China National Petroleum Corporation held bilateral negotiations in the furtherance of the agreement signed earlier by the heads of the two states, the press service of the national company reported. During the meeting, the sides agreed on the future increase in the Kazakh gas exports to China, up to…
In December 2017 the number of unemployed people in Kazakhstan amounted to 441,800 people, which is 5% of the economically active population, the Statistics Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of National Economy reported. As of the end of December 2017, the employment agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan registered 70,300 unemployed people or 0.8% of…
In his new State-of-the-Nation Address Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev revealed what the future held for national transport and logistics infrastructure. President Nazarbayev is convinced that Kazakhstan needs to introduce digital technologies in a big way. For instance, in the address entitled “New Opportunities for Development Amidst the Fourth Industrial Revolution” President Nazarbayev suggests using…
Passengers of the “unfortunate” G9-252 flight of Air Arabia finally jetted off from Astana and Almaty to Sharjah. The flight was initially scheduled to leave the airport in Astana at 04:55 a.m. on January 6 but was delayed for two days. On January 8 the passengers of the delayed flight headed to Sharjah via G9-252…
The passenger buses en route Shymkent-Tashkent will operate on a day-to-day basis, the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Investment and Development said. The new route was launched on January 5. The buses will go to the destination points every hour from 6:00 am till 8:00 pm, the ministry added. The total travel time…