Air Astana resumes flights to Azerbaijan

New official representative of the Kazakh Air Astana company in Azerbaijan Timur Salimov has said that the Air Astana company will resume flights to Azerbaijan from March 3.

Salimov made these remarks at a meeting with Chairman of the board of the Association of Travel Agencies of Azerbaijan Goydaniz Gahramanov, Report informs citing the Association of Travel Agencies of Azerbaijan.

He noted that Air Astana attaches special importance to the Azerbaijani market and is interested in expanding mutual cooperation.

Air Astana was incorporated in late 2001 and its maiden flight was on May 15, 2002.

The inaugural was attended by Kazakh ex-President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Sir Richard Evans representing the two shareholders, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and BAE Systems PLC of the UK.

These shareholders remain committed partners in the airline, with the Government holding a 51 per cent share through its Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund, and BAE Systems PLC holding 49 per cent.

Today Air Astana Group operates a fleet of 50 western aircraft with an average age of 5.2 years. It operates over 40 domestic and international routes. Its passengers are served by more than 6,000 highly qualified staff, the majority of whom are from Kazakhstan, supplemented by skilled foreign personnel. Since the autumn of 2005, the Air Astana team has been headed by Peter Foster, an airline executive with more than 30 years of management experience.

In May 2019 we successfully launched FlyArystan, the region's first truly low-cost carrier.