Kazakhstan low-cost airline FlyArystan will add eight new routes from its new aircraft base in Karaganda.
Starting April 20, 2020, the sixth FlyArystan aircraft will join the fleet of the fast-growing Kazakh low-cost carrier and will become the first one based at the Sary-Arka International Airport, Karaganda, a city located southeast from the country’s capital.
The lowcost carrier’s new routes to be served from Karaganda are to Atyrau, Aktau, Kostanay, Kyzylorda, Aktobe, Shymkent, Semey and Moscow (Zhukovsky). They will join the existing Karaganda service to Almaty that was started in May 2019 with the launch of FlyArystan.
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From April 20, the airline will offer twice-weekly flights to Aktau and Kostanay. From April 21, the airline will add the four-weekly Karaganda-Shymkent-Karaganda service, and on April 22 will add twice-weekly flights to Atyrau, Aktobe, and Kyzlorda. On April 23 the airline will commence a twice-weekly service to Semey from Karaganda, and on May 16 will add the new twice-weekly Moscow (Zhukovsky) service.
“The Karaganda region is one of the largest industrial regions of the country, with a modern infrastructure, convenient geographical location and a promising future, the development of which is impossible without air transport,” says Tim Jordan, managing director of FlyArystan. “And we, the Air Astana group of companies, in particular, FlyArystan are ready to contribute to that continued growth by establishing our first regional aircraft base at Sary-Arka International Airport, Karaganda.”
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FlyArystan began its operations in May 2019, with its initial two aircraft based in Almaty. In less than 10 months of operations, FlyArystan has sold approximately 1,200,000 seats and carried more than 950,000 passengers with a customer load factor of 93%. Ontime performance of the new low-cost carrier has averaged more than 88% since its startup in May 2019. As a consequence of the launch and growth of FlyArystan the Kazakh domestic aviation market is now one of the fastest-growing in the world.
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