ASTANA, Kazakhstan, May 29. International flights are operated from Kazakhstan to 28 countries, Trend reports, citing the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan.
Thus, flights are carried out on 121 routes with a frequency of 567 flights per week.
The largest number of flights are operated to Russia (139 flights per week on 31 routes - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Mineralnye Vody, Kazan, Sochi, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Makhachkala, and Grozny), Türkiye (125 flights per week on 18 routes - Istanbul, Ankara, and Antalya), the United Arab Emirates (58 flights per week on 6 routes - Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah), and China (43 flights per week on 9 routes - Beijing, Urumqi, Xi'an, Hangzhou, and Sanya).
In addition, this year Kazakhstan will significantly increase flights to Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, and Georgia.
Furthermore, 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).