Kazakhstan Adopted The New Rules On Entitlement Of Airline Companies To Performance Of Regular Internal Commercial Air Transportations

  1. GENERAL INFORMATION

    On 25 February 2013 Kazakhstan adopted the new Rules on Entitlement of Airline Companies to Performance of Regular Internal Commercial Air Transportations (the "Rules").

    Generally, the Rules that are based on the Kazakhstani Law on Usage of Airspace of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Aviation Activities dated 15 July 2010 (the "Law") set out terms and qualification requirements to the companies that intend to run regular air transportation in Kazakhstan1. It is to be noted that previously there have already been certain rules and terms for usage of airspace, certification of aircrafts and members of air crews, certification of users of airspace. However, the Rules are the first document that set out qualification requirements and terms for regular internal air transportation in Kazakhstan.

  2. GENERAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS AND TERMS OF AIR TRANSPORTATION

    The Rules divide all transportations into local and regional transportations. Local transportations are transportations performed within borders of one region (so-called "Oblast") and the regional transportations are transportations crossing the borders of one or more regions and including cities of a republican status or a capital of Kazakhstan. I.e. any transporting flight that includes a city of a republican status or a capital is considered as a regional transportation even if carried out within one Oblast.

    The Rules provide among others for the following requirements for a company that intends to perform local air transportation:

    The candidate should be registered in Kazakhstan as an airline company; The company should hold a valid certificate of an airspace user, obtained in accordance with the relevant rules on certification of airspace users. The candidate should have an airline fleet with at least two aircrafts (owned or leased by the candidate) with the relevant valid certificates of air worthiness of equal passenger capacity (the Rules, however, do not specify the minimum passenger capacity). The list of requirements for candidates who intend to carry out regional air transportations is much wider and includes among others the following requirements: The candidate should be registered in Kazakhstan as an airline company; The company should hold a valid certificate of an airspace user, obtained in accordance with the relevant rules on certification of airspace users; The candidate should have an airline fleet with at least five aircrafts (owned or leased by...

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