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New Kazakh airline presented

Business Materials 6 July 2015 16:18 (UTC +04:00)
A presentation of the new Kazakh airline, Qazaq Air JSC, took place July 6 at the international airport of Astana
New Kazakh airline presented

Baku, Azerbaijan, July 6

By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:

A presentation of the new Kazakh airline, Qazaq Air JSC, took place July 6 at the international airport of Astana, according to the National Welfare Fund of Kazakhstan Samruk-Kazyna.

The shares of the new airline fully belong to Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

The route network of the Qazaq Air airline will consist of 12 destinations, mostly non-stop flights between the regions of Kazakhstan.

Currently, it is planned that the airline will serve the following routes at the first phase of its operation: Almaty-Kostanay at intervals up to 3 flights per week; Almaty-Shymkent - up to 8 flights per week; Almaty-Pavlodar - up to 3 flights a week; Almaty-Astana - up to 7 flights per week; Shymkent-Pavlodar - up to 2 flights per week; Shymkent-Kyzylorda - up to 3 flights a week; Shymkent-Aktobe - up to 3 flights a week; Aktobe-Kostanay - up to 3 flights per week; Aktobe-Atyrau - up to 3 flights a week; Almaty-Taldykorgan - up to 3 flights a week; Almaty-Balkhash - up to 3 flights a week; Astana-Balkhash - up to 3 flights per week.

The average distance of the flights will be about 800 kilometers. During the year, since the launch of the first flight, the average flight of the aircraft is planned to be increased to 7.3 hours per day, which involves the implementation of four flights a day. Passenger traffic is forecasted at about 250,000 people.

Project Director of Qazaq Air Blair Pollock said that the airline prices will be sufficiently attractive.

Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane was introduced at the presentation, which is one of three boards of the airlines, which have been ordered from the group with the same name. Speed ​​characteristics of this model are among the highest ones for this type of aircraft, fuel consumption is on average 30 percent lower compared to the jets that it replaces at short distances. The fleet of these aircrafts will allow the airline to effectively carry out flights across Kazakhstan, even the areas with low passenger traffic.

Edited by CN

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