Etihad Airways has launched its maiden flight to Astana, its second destination in Kazakhstan, from its Abu Dhabi home base. Etihad's current four times a week service to Almaty has been reduced to three times a week to facilitate the launch. The Kazakhstan capital is now served, once a week from Abu Dhabi, with the airline using a two-class Airbus A319 configured to carry 110 passengers with 20 seats in business class and 90 in economy class.