Kazakhstan’s Air Astana will resume its direct services between Astana, Kazakhstan and Seoul, South Korea, on June 15.

The Astana to Seoul service was first launched in 2015 and suspended in 2020 due to covid. Air Astana will now offer a twice weekly frequency operated with an Airbus A321LR.

The new services from Astana to Seoul will be operated in addition to the daily flights from Almaty to Seoul, with all services operated on a codeshare basis with Asiana Airlines. Services between Almaty to Seoul were first launched in 2003, and approximately 800,000 passengers having travelled on the route over the past 22 years.

Air Astana’s other new 2024 Summer Schedule services include increases in the frequency of flights from Almaty to Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent up to 14 times a week; to Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek up to eight times a week and Tbilisi in Georgia up to nine times a week; to Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe up to four times a week; and to Azerbaijan’s capital Baku up to three times a week.

Air Astana Group is the largest airline group in Central Asia and the Caucasus regions by revenue and fleet size. The Group operates a fleet of 50 aircraft split between Air Astana, its full-service airline that operated its inaugural flight in 2002, and FlyArystan, its low-cost airline established in 2019. The Group provides scheduled, point-to-point and transit, short-haul and long-haul air travel and cargo on domestic, regional and international routes across Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Far East, the Middle East, India and Europe.

Air Astana was recognised eleven times in a row as the “Best Airline in Central Asia and CIS” at the Skytrax World Airline Awards and received a five-star rating in the major airline category by the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX).

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