Tashkent – Balykchy passenger train will start serving the route on June 6, press service of Kyrgyz Temir Zholu state enterprise reported. The train will run along the route once a week, on Thursdays from Tashkent, and on Saturdays – from Balykchy. The journey time from Bishkek to Tashkent is 20 hours and 30 minutes…
FlyArystan low-cost airline has performed its first flight landing in Nur-Sultan, the Telegram Channel of the Civil Aviation Committee of the Kazakh Industry and Infrastructure Development Ministry reads. The solemn presentation of the first flight of FlyArystan low-cost carrier took place at the airport. Samruk Kazyna CEO Akhmetzhan Yessimov, Kazakh Industry and Infrastructure Development Minister…
Latvian airline airBaltic on April 27 in Riga welcomed its 17th Airbus A220-300 jet of 2019, registered as YL-AAQ. This was the third Airbus A220-300 received this year, and five more new aircraft will have joined the airline’s fleet by the end of the year. “Thus far, airBaltic has carried over 2,350,000 passengers on the…
The Boeing 747-8F aircraft of the Azerbaijani cargo airline Silk Way West Airlines became the first F-category large cargo airliner that landed at the recently opened New Istanbul Airport. Baku-Istanbul-Baku flight was served by the Turkish “Celebi” ground handling company, which had been providing aviation services at a high professional level for many years. Since…
The governments of Georgia and China have agreed to cooperate on international land transportation of passengers and cargo. The agreement was signed by the Georgian Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development Maia Tskitishvili and the Minister of Transport of the People’s Republic of China Li Xiaopeng in Beijing. Minister Tskitishvili said the agreement was a…
Latvia’s Competition Council has applied a fine of EUR 2.4 million to Riga’s public transport company Rigas satiksme for participating in a prohibited agreement in the so-called nano-water case, as reported by the council on April 24. The Competition Council uncovered a prohibited agreement in two of Rigas satiksme’s price surveys on procurement of nano-technological…
FlyArystan has demonstrated its Airbus A320 aircraft, which is ready to take passengers on board. The Kazakh low-cost airline will operate its first flight on the Almaty – Nur-Sultan route on May 1. “We are part of the Air Astana group of companies. The aircraft also belongs to Air Astana, but previously it had a…