Russian airlines are canceling flights to unrest-ridden Kazakhstan. Aeroflot canceled all flights on January 6 and 7, 2022. S7 Airlines suspended the sale of air tickets for its own and joint flights with Air Astana until January 23. These are three directions at once: Moscow – Ust-Kamenogorsk, Novosibirsk – Nur-Sultan and Omsk – Pavlodar.
Flights from Zhukovsky to Nur-Sultan and from Yekaterinburg to Alma-Ata and back, scheduled for January 7, were canceled by Ural Airlines. Passengers, the press service of the air carrier explained, were offered to reissue tickets for late flights or return tickets to the ticket office. The reason for the cancellation of flights was the situation in Kazakhstan, notes RIA News…
After the riots that broke out first in the west of Kazakhstan in Aktau and Zhanaozen, and then spread to Alma-Ata, an emergency regime was introduced in this country until January 19. In Kazakhstan, the Internet was turned off, and the broadcasting of a number of TV channels was temporarily stopped. Also for two weeks across the country from 23.00 to 7.00 a curfew was introduced, and there is also a ban on holding mass events…
In Almaty during the attack on the airport the passenger terminal was destroyed. At this time, there were five foreign aircraft on the airfield. The passengers were evacuated on time. Also in Alma-Ata there were the offices of five TV channels were plundered… The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, asked the peacekeeping forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for help in putting things in order. Units of the armed forces of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan began to arrive in Kazakhstan.
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