Air Astana has launched direct flights from Atyrau International Airport (GUW) in Western Kazakhstan to Tbilisi International Airport (TBS) in Georgia. The inaugural flight took off on May 27, 2025.

The new service will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. With a flight time of just under two hours, Air Astana said the route is expected to be popular with both leisure tourists and business travelers.

Air Astana has launched a new direct flight on the Atyrau–Tbilisi route

Flights will operate three times a week — on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.
This new route expands the airline’s network. Now passengers from Atyrau can fly directly to Amsterdam, Baku, Istanbul, Dubai, and… pic.twitter.com/HErh3FMDtE

— Air Astana (@airastana) May 28, 2025

This new Atyrau to Tbilisi route is the fifth international service operated by Air Astana from Western Kazakhstan. The airline already operates flights from Uralsk International Airport (URA) to Frankfurt Airport (FRA), as well as from Atyrau to Istanbul, Dubai, and Amsterdam. A new service from Atyrau to Baku will be added on May 31, 2025.

Kazakhstan citizens can stay in Georgia visa-free for up to one year.

Air Astana Group is the largest airline group in Central Asia and the Caucasus regions by revenue and fleet size. The group operates a fleet of 60 aircraft split between Air Astana, its full-service airline that operated its inaugural flight in 2002, and FlyArystan, its low-cost airline established in 2019.

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