From Kazakhstan Direct to Hong Kong, Twice a Week

A Kazakhstan Airline; Air Astana, will be the first central Asian airline to provide service between Kazakhstan and Hong Kong with flights twice per week starting in June 2012.

Directly connecting Almaty, the Kazakhstan capital to Hong Kong signifies the rising importance of the central Asian nation to the finance world.

Air Astana already operates flights to 20 cities including flights between Almaty and Beijing and Seoul. Air Astana is 51 percent owned by Kazakh welfare fund Samruk-Kazyna with the remainder held by Britain’s aerospace company BAE Systems, it was established in 2001.