Air Astana will launch direct flights from Atyrau in Westen Kazakhstan to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on 27 May with the service operating three times a week on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays using Airbus family aircraft. The airline already offers scheduled flights from Atyrau to Istanbul, Dubai and Amsterdam.
With a flying time of 1 hour 50 mins between Atyrau and Tbilisi, flight KC125 will depart Atyrau at 08:00 and arrive in Tbilisi at 08:50, with the return flight, KC126 departing Tbilisi and arriving in Atyrau at 12:40. All time local. Round-trip fares, inclusive of all taxes and fees, start from US$213 in Economy Class and from US$587 in Business Class. Tickets are available for purchase on the airline’s website or through authorised travel agencies.
The launch of the new route will bring the summer schedule frequency to Tbilisi up to 15 weekly flights, with departures from three cities in Kazakhstan: nine flights per week from Almaty and three weekly flights each from Astana and Atyrau. Kazakhstan citizens can stay in Georgia visa-free for up to one year.
Air Astana continues to enhance international connectivity from other regional cities, including scheduled flights from Shymkent to Jeddah and Medina, and charter flights to Doha.
Air Astana Group is the largest airline group in Central Asia and the Caucasus regions by revenue and fleet size. The group operates a fleet of 58 aircraft split between Air Astana, its full-service airline that operated its inaugural flight in 2002, and FlyArystan, its low-cost airline established in 2019. The group provides scheduled, point-to-point and transit, short-haul and long-haul air travel and cargo on domestic, regional and international routes across Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Far East, the Middle East, India and Europe.
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