Gorgan-Aktau flight to be launched on Sept. 20

A new direct flight will be launched from Gorgan, the capital of northern Iranian province of Golestan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan’s second largest city, on Tuesday September 20, AVA Diplomatic reports.

A new direct flight will be launched from Gorgan, the capital of northern Iranian province of Golestan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan’s second largest city, on Tuesday September 20, on Saturday.

According to the report, the general director of Golestan provincial airports, Teymour Amiri, said that in order to facilitate commutes of Iranians and Kazakhs, the Kazakh Bek Air Airlines will operate the flights once a week on a regular basis.

As reported in mid-January, Iranian and Kazakh aviation authorities inked a protocol to launch regular flights between the two countries, according to Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Tehran, Baghdad Amreyev.

Under the agreement, the Air Astana airline will operate three regular flights between Tehran to Almaty as of June 2016 per week. Before the agreement, the Iranian airline Mahan Air launched two flights per week between Tehran and Almaty.