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Summary of Air Astana

Air Astana (Kazakh: ??? ?????? (whoops it doesn’t read Kazakh Cyrillic)) is an airline and the flag carrier of Kazakhstan. Based in Almaty, the airline was founded by the Government of Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk Kazyna (51%) and BAE Systems (49%) and commenced operations on 15 May 2002. In February 2024 it became a dual listed company, being listed on the Kazakhstan and London stock exchanges. It is the largest airline in Central Asia and the Caucasus region with 69% and 40% of market share on domestic and intra-regional routes from Kazakhstan.

Aircraft in real life:

Air Astana used to have 6 Fokker 50’s, with P4-RAS being one of them. P4-RAS was in service with Air Astana from February 2010 to the end of Nivember 2012. Near that exit date, schedules stated it would still be used from Astana’s Nursultan Nazarbayev Airport to Semipalatinsk’s Semey Airport and Uralsk’s Oral Ak Zhol Airport and from Uralsk’s Oral Ak Zhol Airport to Atyrau Airport in November 2012.

The aircraft was built in February of 1992, is 32.9 years old and was built with test registration PH-JXM at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The aircraft itself had (and is currently) been used by:
- Fokker Services in February 1992 as PH-JXM
- DLT in March 1992 as D-AFKV
- Lufthansa Cityline in March 1992 as D-AFVK
- Lufthansa (Operated by Lufthansa Cityline) in March 1994 as D-AVFK
- Aircraft Finance and Training in March 1995 as PH-JXM
- Aer Lingus Commuter in July 1995 as PH-JXM
- Rio Sul in December 1995 as PT-SLZ
- Nordeste Linhas Aereas in October 1999 as PT-SLZ
- Aircraft Finance and Training (returned from lease) in July 2002 as PH-JXM
- Pelita Air Service in July 2002 as PK-PFK, named: “Wakatobi”
- Fokker Services in December 2004 as PH-JXM
- Denim Air in June 2005 as PH-JXM
- Air Nostrum (leased by Denim Air) in June 2005 as PH-JXM
- Iberia Regional (Operated by Air Nostrum) in June 2005 as PH-JXM
- Denim Air (returned from lease) in July 2005 as PH-JXM
- VLM in May 2007 as OO-VLT “City of Eindhoven”
- Air Astana in February 2010 as P4-RAS
- Aircraft Finance and Trading in April 2013 as PH-JXM
- Avior Airlines in October 2013 as YV3010
- Avior Regional in Mar 2015 as YV3010
It has since been stored in Puerto Ordaz’s Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana Airport (PZO/SVPR) since December 2016.

P4-RAS landing at Almaty International Airport (ALA/UAAA)

P4-RAS taking off from Koltsovo International Airport (SVX/USSS)

P4-RAS’s Underside, as shown landing at Koltsovo International Airport.

P4-RAS, in snowy conditions at Uralsk’s Oral Ak Zhol Airport (URA/UARR)

P4-RAS While it was in service with VLM as OO-VLM, landing at Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS/EHAM)

That same aircraft’s front view, at Schiphol.

P4-RAS while it was in service with Nordeste Linhas Aereas as PT-SLZ in Fernando de Noronha Airport (FEN/SBFN)

Other Info/Fun Facts:

This is my longest description ever.
This is also the first Fokker 50 livery for Air Astana

That’s all! ????????! (Masayraw (“Have fun!” in Kazakh.))