The Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kairbek Uskenbayev met with the commercial director of the Air Asia Aviation Group Ms. Karen Chan. The meeting was attended by Chairman of the Civil Aviation Committee Talgat Lastaev, Director of Revenue and Routes of Air Asia Aviation Group Mr. Paul Carroll, and Executive Director of Air Asia X Mr. Benyamin Ismail.

During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of regular passenger and cargo flights between Kazakhstan and Malaysia. In turn, representatives of Air Asia Aviation Group confirmed the airline's plans to launch flights from Kuala Lumpur (Air Asia X) and Bangkok (Thai Air Asia X) to Almaty at the first stage with a frequency of 4 flights per week on each route and the next stage to Astana with a frequency of 3 flights per week.

Air Asia also plans to create a "virtual hub" in Kazakhstan and operate flights with the fifth degree of "air freedom" to Istanbul (Turkey), Paris (France), Frankfurt (Germany), London (UK).

It is expected that the opening of flights between the countries will contribute to the further development of trade and economic relations, tourism and business cooperation.

By the way, Air Asia is the largest low-cost airline in Asia, which began operations in 1996. The airline has carried over 600 million passengers. The company operates flights to more than 400 destinations in 25 countries around the world. The aircraft fleet has more than 250 aircraft.