Business travellers used to transiting via theAstana for their travel in Central Asia are going to have to review their flight plans. Five years after its arrival on the Paris-Astana route, the Kazakh airline has decided to transfer its operations from the current administrative capital to the historic centre of Kazakhstan: Almaty. Next June, Air Astana will be operating three flights a week since Paris CDGevery Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Flights will leave Paris at 7.20pm, arriving at Almaty airport at 6.35am. On the return journey, all new Airbus A321LR - it joined the Air Astana fleet last October - will take off at 14:15 for an arrival in Paris at 18:00. This reorganisation should improve connectivity offered to business travellers on stopovers, with optimised connections not only on the domestic network to Nur-Sultan and Shymkent, but also internationally to destinations such as Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and Dushanbe (Tajikistan).
