Air Astana Snow Leopard

In early December, Kazakhstan’s Air Astana took delivery of its first Embraer E190-E2, which the airline painted in a special “Snow Leopard” livery.

The airline says that the livery was chosen to “draw global attention to the threat of extinction faced by this large wild cat, which is a native of the of the mountain ranges in southern Kazakhstan.”

Air Astana is planning on taking delivery of five E190-E2 jets from Embraer, to replace its older E190 aircraft.

In August we ran a special edition on airline liveries, click here to download it.