(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 29. Kazakhstan's AirAstana will resume flights from Astana to Seoul (South Korea),Trend reports.
The twice-weekly flights will be operated by Airbus A321LRaircraft from June 15, 2024.
Notably, Air Astana launched flights from Astana to Seoul in2015 but was forced to suspend them in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Flights from Astana to Seoul will complement daily flights fromAlmaty to Seoul, with both routes operating under a codeshareagreement with Asiana Airlines. The airline launched theAlmaty-Seoul flight in 2003, and over the past 22 years, it hascarried about 800,000 passengers on this route.
Meanwhile, the number of passengers transported by air inKazakhstan amounted to 13.3 million from January through December2023. This is 20.7 percent more than in the same period in2022.
At the same time, passenger turnover amounted to 25.9 billionp-km (increased by 28.8 percent compared to January–December2022).
Furthermore, Kazakhstan is taking consistent steps to developair transport in the country.
Thus, in 2023, the aircraft fleet of Kazakh airlines increasedfrom 89 to 98 units, and the seat capacity increased from 12,000 to15,000 (an increase of 26 percent). All this will improve theregularity of flights and the accessibility of air travel ingeneral.
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