On May 22, 2021, Turkish Airlines launched a new international scheduled flight from the spiritual capital of Kazakhstan – Turkestan to Istanbul.

Turkish Airlines timed the opening of this flight to the 30th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Regular flights between the cities of Turkestan and Istanbul will be operated on a B-737 aircraft with a frequency of 1 flight per week (Saturday), with a gradual increase as the epidemiological situation improves.

The ticket price starts from 119,500 tenges.

Since the launch of the first regular flight (December 1, 2020), more than 160 flights have been performed from the Turkestan airport, and about 47 thousand passengers have been transported; the average commercial load of flights was 83 %. The Civil Aviation Committee and the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan are working systematically to develop tourism.

Today, flights to Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Atyrau and Istanbul are operated from the Turkestan airport. In the 2nd half of this year, as the spiritual centre of the Turkic world, Turkestan is planned to be connected with ten regional centres (Aktau, Aktobe, Karaganda, Kokshetau, Kostanay, Pavlodar, Petropavlovsk, Taldykorgan, Ustkamenogorsk) with a frequency of about 50 flights per week.

Turkestan airport is included in the “open sky” mode for flights of foreign airlines, which will make it attractive for expanding the geography of flight and help attract the stream of foreign tourists.
Also, from May 31 this year, the airline “Fly Arystan” plans to launch new flights from Turkestan to Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). At the same time, the opening of a flight to Tashkent (Uzbekistan) is being worked out.

We note that the flights will be operated in strict compliance with sanitary and epidemiological requirements and under the published schedule on the airline’s website.