Kazakhstan Airlines SCAT Receives Certificate for Maintenance of Western aircraft
June 22 -- ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- SCAT Airlines received the right for self maintaining of Western Aircraft by Part-145 standards of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the Ministry of Transport and Communications told Trend.
EASA Certificate allows you to perform both basic and linear aircraft maintenance. Thus, the company became the second in Kazakhstan which is certified for maintenance of western production aircraft.
Chairman of the Board of Civil Aviation Beken Seidakhmet noted that obtaining the certificate by Kazakh airline company is significant event in the civil aviation industry. After all, the main aim of the strategy of industrial-innovative development of Kazakhstan is to achieve sustainable development through economic diversification and shifting from extraction development. Maintenance of aircraft is quite high-tech process, and the creation of service centers that meet international standard will promote the development of domestic aviation and technical base in Kazakhstan and human resource capacity.
SCAT Airlines was established in 1997. It is one of the largest Kazakh airlines. Today the company is a leader by the number of internal lines of Kazakh carriers. The route network encompasses more than 80 domestic and international destinations.
Some 900,185 people were carried in 2011. The number is growing by an average of 20 percent per year.
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