FYI from interview with CEO:
As for the numbers of available professional personnel, is the company suffering from a shortage of pilots and from difficulties with their training?
"The lack of commercial airline pilots is a widespread problem. We have our own Ab-initio pilot training programme, where we have trained about 300 pilots since 2009. We support it, pay for it and it is entirely an internal initiative. But, of course, attracting the required number of pilots remains a challenge."
Interview: Peter Foster, president and chief executive of Air Astana