Capacity will be more than doubled up to the World Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan's capital Airport with catchment area of 250 million people in the CIS countries.
Air Astana, the national airline of Kazakhstan, is the ‘Official Carrier’ of the Astana EXPO 2017, which will be held from 10th June to 10th September 2017 in the ultramodern Kazakhstan capital of Astana and is expected to attract over two million visitors. The organizers of the World Expo, which will concern itself with the theme of ‘Future Energy’, expect more than 100,000 guests arriving by plane – also from overseas.
The booming international airport of Astana, which handled more than 3.6 million passengers in 2015, is currently being extended. In recent years it has regularly achieved double-digit passenger growth rates and even in 2015, an economically difficult year for Central Asia, it registered growth of five percent. Its capacity is planned to increase to 8.2 million passengers by Spring 2017 and thus more than double. Astana’s airport project with a new terminal for international traffic, terminal space of 47,000 square metres and six flexible passenger gates for jets of various sizes, is progressing according to plan. First operational tests will follow in February 2017, and the new international part of the airport will go into official operation in May. The existing terminal will then be used exclusively for domestic traffic.
The expansion of Astana International Airport will simultaneously strengthen the position of Air Astana, which in Kazakhstan’s capital, beside the metropolis of Almaty, operates the most important hub for air transport in Central Asia and from there currently offers 420 flights per week. Astana Airport, in the capital with its population of 800,000, has a catchment area of 250 million people from the CIS countries, which the airline clearly defines as its home market.
Astana EXPO 2017 with German participation
Germany will also make a contribution to EXPO 2017, with its own pavilion in space of 1,700 square metres. The theme is ‘Energy Revolution – Made in Germany’. Germany will thereby mainly present innovative solutions and processes from the fields of solar energy, wind power, geothermal and hydroelectric power.
More than 100 countries and 18 international organizations are expected to participate, with exhibits on the 429 acre EXPO site and, for example, are expected to present concepts for the development of new energy sources and for a sustained reduction in energy consumption, but also for future energy storage and networking.
From Frankfurt daily non-stop flights to Astana
For the World Expo, as the official line Air Astana has a gift to offer: everyone who is travels with the airline will receive free admission to the exhibition. From Frankfurt am Main, Air Astana offers daily, convenient non-stop connections to Astana. The flights are conducted with the latest model of the Boeing 767-300, which has a multi-award winning Business Class with a total of 30 flatbed seats. On board, Air Astana offers a selection of fresh, high-quality menus with exquisite drinks and a wide-ranging entertainment programme with a large, individual screen at every seat.
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