Dangerous goods

Prior approval and additional charges are required for the transportation of weapons and ammunition.

A request must be made at least 72 hours before departure. To confirm this request, please fill out this web form or make your request through an airline ticketing agency. In the request for the transportation of firearms, please specify the following:
- Description and quantity of the weapon;
- Model;
- Description and weight of ammunition;
- A Booking or ticket number.

Weapons must be unloaded. Ammunition should only be for personal use, sporting and/or hunting purposes.

Each passenger is allowed to carry no more than 5 kg of the total weight of the ammunition with the package (weighing is required).

Ammunition must be securely packed and in standard commercial packaging. To complete all airport formalities in time, passengers should arrive at check-in 2 hours prior to departure, regardless of whether online check-in is available. Explosive and incendiary ammunition is prohibited.

Read more here.

Payment is made for one set: 1 weapon in a holster/case + 1 package with ammunition.

The fares for your travel destination are listed here.

Firearms, model guns, daggers, folding knives and other aggressive-looking objects are only allowed in checked baggage.

Please read the conditions of gun transportation here.

Electronic cigarettes (including e-cigarettes, tubes, and other vaporizers for personal use) containing batteries must be carried only in hand baggage. For electronic cigarettes transported to international destinations, please clarify the rules for importing and exporting electronic cigarettes to/from the country of departure at the airport border service. For example, all forms of electronic cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), as required by the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the Republic of India, are completely prohibited for carriage by passengers in all types of baggage, including hand baggage, as well as for carriage as cargo.

In order to ensure safety, spare lithium batteries, accumulators, including power banks and their elements are allowed to be transported only in hand luggage. 

The following types of batteries are allowed for carriage on Air Astana flights:

--Lithium-ion (Li-iON)

· Small spare batteries up to 100 watts/hour only in hand luggage, no approval from airline is required, but during check-in the passenger shall confirm that capacity of the battery is not more that 100Wh;

· Average spare batteries from 100 to 160 watts/hour for hand luggage only, approval is required. Such batteries are limited by 2 per passenger;

· Large batteries with a capacity of more than 160 watts/hour only through freight transportation.

--Lithium metal (LI-MH)

· Small spare batteries up to 2 grams in hand luggage only, no approval from airline is required;

· Average spare batteries from 2 to 8 grams in hand luggage only, approval is required. Such batteries are limited by 2 per passenger;

· Large batteries with a capacity of more than 8 grams for freight transportation only.

Replacement batteries must be individually protected and either be in the manufacturer's original packaging or have their terminals insulated to prevent short circuits.

If your batteries do not meet the above requirements, prior authorization is required. To confirm, please fill out this web form. 

Transportation is allowed without additional approval if the following requirements are met:

According to safety regulations, small personal motorized vehicles powered by lithium batteries, such as

• hover-board (gyro scooter);
• mini-segway (scooter, segway, scooter);
• air-wheel (single-wheeled gyro scooter);
• solo-wheel (mono-wheel);
• balance-wheel (compact electric monocycle);

and other similar items are completely prohibited in all types of baggage on Air Astana flights.

Explosive substances, compressed gases (aerosols), flammable liquids, substances with high oxygen content, such as peroxides and bleaching powders, and toxic, radioactive, corrosive, harmful, stinking, irritating substances, as well as magnetic materials, may not be carried on Air Astana flights.