Alliances Set Sights on Air Astana
Air Astana plans to take delivery of a third Boeing 767-300ER this year. (Image: Boeing)
Air Astana plans to take delivery of a third Boeing 767-300ER this year. (Image: Boeing)

Resolved on tapping the booming Central Asian market, global alliances SkyTeam, OneWorld and Star Alliance have approached Kazakhstan national carrier Air Astana with offers to join their ranks. In response, the airline recently commissioned U.S.-based Seabury Group to prepare a report on whether it should enter an alliance “and which one, because all alliances want us to join them,” Air Astana president Peter Foster told AIN in Astana recently.

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