To date, passenger traffic in air transport has exceeded all forecasts and is growing steadily, both in comparison to last year and in contrast to pre-pandemic 2019.

Thus, according to the results of the first 11 months of 2022, the number of passengers transported by Kazakh airlines increased by 15% over the same period in 2021, totaling 9.9 million people (2021 – 8.6 million people; 2020 – 5.0 million people).

According to preliminary data, approximately 10.8 million passengers are expected in 2022. The growth rate with the indicator value of 2021 (9.4 million people) is 15%.

Passenger traffic will exceed 10 million for the first time in Kazakhstan's independence years.

Domestic airlines transported 7 million passengers on domestic lines between January and November 2022 (compared to 6.9 million in 2021 and 4.1 million in 2020), while international airlines transported 2.9 million passengers (in 2021 – 1.7 million, in 2020 – 0.9 million).

The passenger traffic of "Air Astana" was approximately 3.7 million, "FlyArystan" was about 3.0 million, "SCAT" was about 2.7 million, and "Qazaq air" was about 0.5 million.