AIR ASTANA LAUNCHES NEW ROUTES

Kazakhstan flag carrier, Air Astana, is launching new routes from Almaty, Astana and Aktau to destinations in Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkey during November and December. Flights departing from Almaty will fly to: St Petersberg twice weekly, Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan three times weekly, and Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan three times weekly. Routes from Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, will fly to Yekaterinburg in Southern Russia from December 8. A new once a week service from Aktau in western Kazakhstan to Istanbul will start on November 28. The airline will use E-190s on its expanding Central Asia network, with the