How the pandemic had a negative impact on the air carriers of Kazakhstan?

Created on 26.04.2021 10:04

The pandemic has caused significant losses not only to tour operators, but also to air carriers. Last year, they have suffered damage totaling 356 billion tenge, the NewTimes.kz writes.

Since February 3, 2020, all the international flights were reduced by 99%, and from April 1 to May 1, 2020 regular domestic flights were reduced appropriately, according to representatives of the Civil Aviation Committee of the MIID RK. Undoubtedly, this situation had a detrimental effect on the passenger traffic. At the end of last year, 5.5 million people were transported within our country by reducing at 36% compared to 2019 (8.6 million passengers). In addition, the number of passengers had dropped by 40% - 10.7 million Kazakhstan citizens.

Currently, domestic flights are operated on 47 routes with a frequency of 574 flights per week (there were 45 routes with a frequency of 540 flights before the COVID-19 pandemic). “According to preliminary data, in the first quarter of this year, Kazakhstan air carriers had lost 12 billion tenge, including: JSC Skat - 6.3 billion tenge, Air Astana JSC - 4.5 billion tenge, JSC Qazaq Air - 847 million tenge, JSC Southern Sky - 64.8 million tenge, JSC Zhetysu - 270 million tenge, JSC  Zhezkazgan Air - 44 million tenge ", - says in the message.

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