The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan is working to attract new airlines to Kazakhstan in the "open skies" regime.

Today, on November 8, 2019 in Doha (Qatar), negotiations were held between the aviation authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the State of Qatar. The Qatar delegation was represented by the President of the Civil Aviation Administration of Qatar, Mr. Abdullah Nasser Turki Al-Subai, Kazakhstan was represented by Chairman of the Civil Aviation Committee of the MIID RK Talgat Lastaev.

The talks were attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the State of Qatar Askar Shokybaev, and representatives of Qatar Airways, Air Astana, and Almaty airport.

As a result, the legal framework was fixed for the regular 7 flights per week between Nur-Sultan and Doha, 7 flights per week between Almaty and Doha and 7 cargo flights per week, as well as with the fifth degree of "freedom of air" within the framework of the implemented "open skies" regime in Kazakhstan.

According to senior Vice President of Qatar Airways, Mr. Fathi Atti, the first flights between Nur-Sultan and Doha are scheduled to be launched in December this year.

This will allow passengers from Kazakhstan to travel to 160 destinations around the world.

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Qatar Airways-the national airline of Qatar, is one of the largest in the world. The fleet consists of 233 aircraft. The main transit hub of the air carrier is the International airport Hamad Doha. At the end of 2018, the airline carried about 29 million passengers.