Almaty International Airport

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Almaty International Airport (Kazakh: Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, Russian: Международный Аэропорт Алматы) (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA) is the main airport of Almaty city, Kazakhstan. It is located about 18 kilometers from the city centre.

History

The airport was built in 1935. Up to 1990 it was the part of Kazakh Department of Civil Aviation, and then reorganized into "Alma-Ata Airport" in 1991. Since 1993 it has run as an independent business unit. In 1994 it was reorganized into OJSC "Almaty Airport" and later renamed to JSC Almaty International Airport.

Following a runway reconstruction in 1998, Almaty airport was awarded II category and status of an International Airport.

On 9 July 1999 a fire started in the kitchen of the airport restaurant. The whole terminal building burned down in just a few hours, fortunately without major injuries. Construction of a new terminal was completed in 2004.

Following a decision of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Kazkahstan started shifting most of the international flights to Astana International Airport since 1 Septemeber 2005.

Almaty Airport is a hub for the national carrier Air Astana. It is also a major Central Asian cargo hub.

Airlines

International destinations

• Air Arabia (Sharjah)
• Air Astana (Bangkok, Beijing, Delhi, Dubai, Istanbul, Moscow, London, Seoul)
• Altyn Air (Bishkek)
• Asiana Airlines (Seoul)
• Aurela (Vilnus)
• British Airways (London)
• China Southern Airlines (Urumqi)
• Imair Airlines (Baku)
• Kam Air (Kabul)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Pulkovo (St. Petersburg)
• Samara Airlines (Samara)
• Tajikistan Airlines (Dushanbe, Kurgan-Tyube)
• Transaero (Moscow)
• Turkish Airlines (Antalia, Istanbul)
• UM Airlines (Kiev, Simferopol)
• Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
• Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)

Domestic destinations

• Air Astana (Aktau, Aqtöbe, Astana, Karaganda, Kzyl-Orda, Pavlodar, Oral, Öskemen, Shimkent)
• Air Kokshetau (Kokshetau)
• Atyrau Airways (Atyrau)
• Sayakhat Airlines
• SCAT (Aktau, Aqtöbe, Atyrau, Kostanai, Öskemen, Shimkent)
• Semeyavia (Semey)
• Tulpar Air Service (Karaganda)
• Zheskazgan Avia (Zhezkazgan)

See also

• Almaty
• Kazakhstan

External links

• Almaty International Airport
• Passenger opinions
• World Aero Data