The national airline of Kazakhstan, Air Astana, intends to reduce the number of foreign pilots.

According to some reports, at the moment the airline "Air Astana"Employs about 40% of foreign pilots, however, the air carrier's management intends to increase this figure to 10% maximum, thereby enabling to minimize the costs of foreign civil aviation pilots and at the same time to find a decent job of domestic experts in the field.

Until recently pilots from Kazakhstan were not always high demand in the airlines, but their professionalism has increased seriously in recent years, which gives a good chance that the statistical data of Kazakhstan's carriers improve, and that will attract new investment, and in all likelihood will expand opportunities for international cooperation.

As for the other carrier of Kazakhstan, the airline "SCAT", There is also the first noticeable tendency to attract domestic civil aviation pilots.