Trip Report - 4K - Almaty to Aktau ✈ 2024 - KC 7177 - Airbus A320 - FlyArystan Economy CentralAsia

Trip Report - 4K - Almaty to Aktau ✈ 2024 - KC 7177 - Airbus A320 - FlyArystan Economy #flight

About Airbus 320

The Airbus A320 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short to medium range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners; it carries 185 to 236 passengers. It has a stretched fuselage which was the first derivative of the baseline A320 and entered service in 1994, about six years after the original A320. The aircraft shares a common type rating with all other Airbus A320-family variants, allowing previous A320-family pilots to fly the aircraft without the need for further training.

In December 2010, Airbus announced a new generation of the A320 family, the A320neo (new engine option). The similarly lengthened fuselage A321neo variant offers new, more efficient engines, combined with airframe improvements and the addition of winglets (called Sharklets by Airbus). The aircraft delivers fuel savings of up to 15%. The A321neo carries up to 244 passengers, with a maximum range of 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) for the long-range version when carrying no more than 206 passengers.

About Almaty Airport :

Almaty International Airport, is the largest international airport of Kazakhstan (ahead of Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport) and the principal hub of Air Astana. It serves Almaty, the largest and most populous city in the country, and, with its surface transport links, much of the rest of the country. It is the busiest airport in Kazakhstan and in Central Asia, accounting for 7.23 million passengers in 2022.

About FlyArystan

FlyArystan, based in Kazakhstan, is the first and presently only low-cost airline in Central Asia. It is a subsidiary of Air Astana, Central Asia’s leading airline, from which it draws all safety, technical, training, systems and services support. The airline, which commenced operations in May 2019, operates a comprehensive network of low fares flights within Kazakhstan on a modern fleet of A320 CEO and NEO aircraft from bases in Almaty, Nur-Sultan, Atyrau, Aktau and Shymkent.

About Aktau International Airport

Aktau International Airport formerly Shevchenko-Central, is an international airport in Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan. It is the primary international airport serving Aktau. The airport is the eighth-busiest international air passenger gateway into Central Asia, the 50th-busiest airport in the Post-Soviet states, and the fourth-busiest airport in Kazakhstan.

Aktau International Airport is located 21 km (13 mi) northwest of the city of Aktau. The airport features one passenger terminal and one runway. It serves as a focus city for SCAT Airlines. The airport is served year-round by Aeroflot, Air Astana, SCAT Airlines, Qazaq Air and on a seasonal basis by Belavia and Sunday Airlines.

The airport opened in 1983 as Shevchenko-Central and was commonly known as Shevchenko Airport (the airport's current IATA code, SCO, is derived from the city's previous name of Shevchenko).