Air Astana upgrades Podgorica service to year-round

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Air Astana upgrades Podgorica service to year-round

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Kazakhstan’s national carrier Air Astana has upgraded its new seasonal summer service from Almaty and Nur-Sultan to Podgorica to year-round operations. The airline will maintain flights from the two cities to Montenegro’s capital past October 31, when the 2021/2022 winter season begins. Services from Almaty will run twice per week, each Tuesday and Sunday, while flights from Nur-Sultan will operate once per week, on Wednesdays. Services will run for the duration of the winter season, until late March.

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Anonymous13:48
Wow
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Anonymous14:27
This is quite impressive. Did not see Air Astana keeping flights over winter.
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Anonymous18:33
They should fly to TIV, much more interesting for tourists
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Anonymous20:22
I dont think it will work out, but if it does it would be tremendous.
Kudos to Air Astana for trying out something out of the box.
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