Air Astana, Kazakhstan’s flag carrier, will launch a new weekly service between London Heathrow Airport and Astana on October 29, increasing its weekly total of round-trips between Kazakhstan and the British capital to three per week.

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Air Astana, Kazakhstan’s flag carrier, has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 equipped with Sharklet fuel-saving wing-tip devices. The airline becomes the first in Central Asia to receive an Airbus A320-family jet with Sharklets.

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Kazakhstan’s flag carrier Air Astana will launch new services from Almaty and Astana to Ukraine’s capital Kiev on March 31 and April 1 respectively. It will also begin flying from Atyrau, on the Caspian Sea, to Moscow on April 1 and between Astana and Orenburg in southern Russia on April 16.

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Flights are initially being operated on Wednesdays and Fridays, using a Boeing 757 configured in a dual-class layout seating 16 in business class and 150 in economy class.

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Kazakhstan’s Air Astana is launching twice-weekly service between Almaty and Hong Kong on August 28, a month after Kazakhstan and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region begin a reciprocal 14-day visa-free travel agreement.

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The carrier’s flights to the major Siberian industrial and transportation center will be operated by 50-seat Fokker 50 turboprops twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays. Two more weekly frequencies, operated by Embraer 190 jets on Thursdays and Sundays, will begin from September 1.

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Upon the delivery of three more Embraer 190s during the second quarter of 2012, Air Astana will start operating new international services from Astana to Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator and Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent; from Almaty to Kazan in Russia; and from Atyrau to Moscow.

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According to Air Astana, the aircraft order is the largest in Kazakhstan’s civil-aviation history. The Boeing 767-300ERs will be delivered in 2013 and 2014 and the Boeing 787s in 2017 and 2019.

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Air Astana is planning to boost frequencies on its scheduled services from Almaty to Bangkok, Delhi and Kuala Lumpur from December. It will also launch a new twice-weekly nonstop service linking Almaty with Hong Kong in February 2012 and a winter-season-only service between Almaty and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam in October 2012.

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Air Astana is decorating 10 Boeing and Airbus aircraft with special commemorative insignia and slogans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the independence of Kazakhstan.

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Kenya Airways has ordered 10 Embraer 190s and optioned 10 E-Jets; Air Astana has ordered two Embraer 190s and optioned two; and GECAS has ordered two additional Embraer 190s.

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Air Astana, Kazakhstan’s flag carrier, has marked its ninth anniversary by officially presenting the first of six new Embraer 190s at a ceremony in Almaty.

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