{"id":83648,"date":"2026-09-10T01:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83648"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:52:59","slug":"new-airline-to-ply-singapore-kazakhstan-route-starting-oct-20-lifestyle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=83648","title":{"rendered":"New airline to ply Singapore-Kazakhstan route starting Oct 20, Lifestyle News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Travellers looking to visit Kazakhstan will soon be able to fly there via a new carrier arriving in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakh carrier SCAT Airlines will be operating flights between Changi Airport and Shymkent via Sanya, China from Oct 20, it said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Shymkent is known for its rich history and mountainous landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Located in southern Kazakhstan, close to its border with Uzbekistan, it is also a convenient location for those looking to visit the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the airline, the flight from Singapore to Sanya will be about three hours long.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers will then have a two-hour layover in the coastal city on Hainan Island before embarking on a 6.5 hour flight to Shymkent.<\/p>\n<p>SCAT Airlines also assured that travellers will not need to go through passport control in China, making it that much more fuss-free.<\/p>\n<p>This new route will be operated on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft twice a week, the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Facebook post by Changi Airport on Tuesday (Sept 8), it is also the airport&#8217;s first direct connection to Central Asia since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Travellers can already start booking their flights for the upcoming months via SCAT Airlines&#8217; website.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fchangiairport%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0aCsz9hirnYMjP9VzHqvCVCMoHj8bByKH224rh2kiuYAD2L4G4YSTECg3Rcdy7396l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[[nid:743159]]<\/p>\n<p>bhavya.rawat@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/lifestyle\/new-airline-singapore-kazakhstan-flight-shymkent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers looking to visit Kazakhstan will soon be able to fly there via a new carrier arriving in Singapore. Kazakh carrier SCAT Airlines will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}