Kyrgyzstan

Asman Airlines has secured financing to acquire two prior-generation narrowbodies through its parent company Airports of Kyrgyzstan Holding.

Kyrgyzstan has hired Catalin Radu, former director of the Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan, to help remove local airlines from the EU blacklist.

Asman Airlines is growing its turboprop fleet as it sees potential for Kyrgyzstan to become a hub for international transportation and transit flights.

Saudi Arabian carrier flynas is planning to broaden its route map with flights to Kyrgyzstan, with services to the cities of Oshkosh and Bishkek.

Part two of our focus on the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia - collectively known as 'the Stans' - looks at the increasingly liberalised market of Kyrgyzstan.