New Kazakhstan international air routes: Kazakhstan plans to launch 75 new international air routes between now and 2020, the country’s Minister of Transport and Communications Zhenis Kassymbek told the TransEurasia-2014 conference this week. Kazakhstan is in the process of either building or renovating 13 runways and nine airport terminals to accommodate larger airplanes, and is working on turning Astana and Almatay airports into international transit hubs. Tengrinews