AKIPRESS.COM - Air Astana has launched Astana-Tbilisi-Astana, Astana-Seoul-Astana flights as part of the new 100 Steps Plan of Kazakhstan's development, president of the company Peter Foster gave a press conference on this occasion.

The air company will continue opening of new flights to Dubai, Honkong, and Tokyo. Flights to New-York are planned to launch in 2019 when the Boing-797 will be purchased, he said.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered to open new air flights to New-York, Singapore, Tokyo.

Annual air cargo traffic between Europe and Asia reaches 4 million tons, passenger traffic is 53 million people.

“Kazakhstan is able to increase transit more than five times,” according to Nazarbayev.