BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 6
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana is further decreasing the number of flights to Turkey’s Istanbul, Trend reports citing the company.
The company said that due to the decision taken by Kazakhstan’s Interdepartmental Commission, starting Nov. 9, 2020 the company is decreasing the number of flights to Istanbul implemented from Almaty, Nur-Sultan and Atyrau cities of Kazakhstan.
Thus, now, the company will be carrying out flights four times a week from Almaty, two times a week from Nur-Sultan and once a week from Atyrau.
Last month, the company said that starting Oct. 21, 2020, Kazakhstan’s Air Astana is reducing the number of flights to Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, and Germany.
Thus, the weekly number of flights to Istanbul will be decreased from 16 to 12, to Dubai from 12 to 8, to Kyiv from 3 to 1, to Frankfurt from 6 to 4.
On Oct. 19, 2020, Kazakhstan’s government decided to take several measures to battle the spread of coronavirus infection in the country.
Thus, the number of flights on international routes will be reduced starting Oct. 26, 2020, taking into account the epidemiological situation in foreign countries;
Mandatory PCR testing of all arriving in Kazakhstan (including citizens of Kazakhstan), as well as drivers carrying out bilateral international transportation, will be conducted;
The validity period of the carried out PCR test for those arriving from abroad, including citizens of Kazakhstan, shall be no more than 3 days.
The first two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty city from Germany on March 13, 2020.
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