Air Astana’s first Embraer E190-E2 arrived at its Nursultan Nazarbayev International airport base in Astana today, adorned in a special “Snow Leopard” livery.
The delivery of the Pratt & Whitney PW1900G-powered twinjet marks the start of a fleet renewal exercise at the Kazakh carrier, with a total of five E2s on order that will gradually replace nine older-generation E190 aircraft. These have been operated on domestic and low-density regional services since 2011.
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Air Astana says the E2’s snow leopard livery is designed to draw global attention to the threat of extinction that the wild cat is facing. The snow leopard is a native of the mountain ranges in southern Kazakhstan, it adds.
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