Air Astana - Personnel

Personnel

At January 2012 Air Astana employed 3512 people, mostly in Kazakhstan, though it directly employs people at most of its overseas stations. It employs 320 pilots, about a third of whom are non-Kazakhstan nationals recruited principally in Europe. It operates a cadet pilot training program for Kazakhstan nationals on the campus of the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne, Florida. It operates an engineering training program at the Airline Technical Centre (ATC), Lasham, England, together with the University of Bristol. It plans to introduce a general management training program at Cranfield University, England, in mid 2012. It employs 900 mostly female cabin staff, all of whom are Kazakhstan nationals. Its management is a combination of Kazakhstan and foreign nationals, many of whom have been with the airline for the majority of its life, some of whom were present at the start of its operations in May 2002. In May 2012, it also launched a highly successful aviation English training program for its cadet pilots.