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Dec 05, 2012 (newstodate): Airport capacity constitutes a bottle-neck for growth at Kazakhstan's two leading airports, Almaty and Astana.
Against the background of continuous economic and aviation traffic growth in Central Asia and within the scope of its strategic development, Kazakhstan's national airline Air Astana contracted Lufthansa Consulting to assist the carrier with its expansion plan.
Lufthansa Consulting has now validated the carrier's growth plan and optimized the current network and schedule in order to realize the potential of the carrier's extended home market including Kazakhstan, Central Asia and Russia under the current constraints at the airports in Almaty and Astana.
At Almaty, the airport's terminal peak hour capacity remains the main constraint limiting the growth not only of the airport itself, but also of Air Astana and other airlines.
Lufthansa Consulting's high-level analysis estimates that by 2017, if the infrastructure remains unchanged, 4.2 million passengers are lost for Almaty Airport and Air Astana, resulting in a GDP impact of 1.4 bn USD lost, including direct, indirect, induced and catalytic effect, and around 130.000 jobs could be lost or not created, again including direct, indirect, induced and catalytic effect.
Together with Air Astana, Lufthansa Consulting has now developed a 5-year network and fleet plan with new destinations, also assisting the carrier to improve the crew planning process.
Against the background of continuous economic and aviation traffic growth in Central Asia and within the scope of its strategic development, Kazakhstan's national airline Air Astana contracted Lufthansa Consulting to assist the carrier with its expansion plan.
Lufthansa Consulting has now validated the carrier's growth plan and optimized the current network and schedule in order to realize the potential of the carrier's extended home market including Kazakhstan, Central Asia and Russia under the current constraints at the airports in Almaty and Astana.
At Almaty, the airport's terminal peak hour capacity remains the main constraint limiting the growth not only of the airport itself, but also of Air Astana and other airlines.
Lufthansa Consulting's high-level analysis estimates that by 2017, if the infrastructure remains unchanged, 4.2 million passengers are lost for Almaty Airport and Air Astana, resulting in a GDP impact of 1.4 bn USD lost, including direct, indirect, induced and catalytic effect, and around 130.000 jobs could be lost or not created, again including direct, indirect, induced and catalytic effect.
Together with Air Astana, Lufthansa Consulting has now developed a 5-year network and fleet plan with new destinations, also assisting the carrier to improve the crew planning process.