Kazakhstan-Europe aviation: Air Astana's new routes and upgrades

Kazakhstan's Air Astana has launched two routes to Germany over the past year, made possible by a new partnership with Lufthansa. Air Astana will operate four Kazakhstan-Germany routes in summer 2018 and Lufthansa will operate a fifth route.

Air Astana is also upgrading its Astana-London Heathrow service to daily in Jun-2018. London has been a highly successful market in the past three years, enabling Air Astana to expand from only three to (now) seven frequencies.

Air Astana also serves Amsterdam and Paris, and will have 26 weekly flights to Western Europe in summer 2018, compared to only 16 four years ago. Air Astana and its partner Lufthansa are now the only airlines operating nonstop flights from Kazakhstan to Western Europe, but several Eastern European airlines compete aggressively in this market with a one-stop product.