ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 29. Kazakhstan's Air Astana will resume flights from Astana to Seoul (South Korea), Trend reports.
The twice-weekly flights will be operated by Airbus A321LR aircraft from June 15, 2024.
Notably, Air Astana launched flights from Astana to Seoul in 2015 but was forced to suspend them in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Flights from Astana to Seoul will complement daily flights from Almaty to Seoul, with both routes operating under a codeshare agreement with Asiana Airlines. The airline launched the Almaty-Seoul flight in 2003, and over the past 22 years, it has carried about 800,000 passengers on this route.
Meanwhile, the number of passengers transported by air in Kazakhstan amounted to 13.3 million from January through December 2023. This is 20.7 percent more than in the same period in 2022.
At the same time, passenger turnover amounted to 25.9 billion p-km (increased by 28.8 percent compared to January–December 2022).
Furthermore, Kazakhstan is taking consistent steps to develop air transport in the country.
Thus, in 2023, the aircraft fleet of Kazakh airlines increased from 89 to 98 units, and the seat capacity increased from 12,000 to 15,000 (an increase of 26 percent). All this will improve the regularity of flights and the accessibility of air travel in general.