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Almaty International Airport
Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы
Международный Аэропорт Алматы
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IATA: ALA – ICAO: UAAA
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner JSC Almaty International Airport
Serves Almaty
Location 15 km NE of Almaty, Kazakhstan
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 681 m / 2,234 ft
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Website alaport.com
Map
UAAA is located in Kazakhstan
UAAA
UAAA
Location in Kazakhstan
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05R/23L 4,400 14,436 Concrete
05L/23R 4,500 14,764 Concrete
Statistics (2012)
Passengers[1] 4,003,004
Source: AIP Kazakhstan[2]

Almaty International Airport (Kazakh: Xalıqaralıq Almatı Äwejayı/Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, Russian: Международный Аэропорт Алматы) (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA) is the largest international airport in Kazakhstan. It is located about 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of Almaty,[2] the country's largest city and commercial capital. Almaty airport accounts for half of passenger traffic and 68% of cargo traffic to Kazakhstan.[3] In 2012, the airport handled 4,003,004 passengers, including 1,997,570 arriving passengers, and 2,005,434 departing passengers.

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The airport was built in 1935, for all small civil/military flying ships. 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.

The supersonic transport (SST) Tupolev Tu-144 went into service on 26 December 1975, flying mail and freight between Moscow and Alma-Ata in preparation for passenger services, which commenced in November 1977. The Aeroflot flight on 1 June 1978 was the Tu-144's 55th and last scheduled passenger service.

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 shashlik 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.

On 30 September 2008 a second runway was opened with a first departure of a BMI flight bound for London Heathrow. The new runway has also been given an ICAO certificate for CAT III landings which will significantly reduce the number of planes diverting to nearby airfields due to low visibility, especially during the winter months. This runway is the longest in central Asia. The new runway can accept all types of aircraft without limitation of take-off weight and operations frequency.

Growth in connectivity is in danger of being compromised by airport infrastructure that is comparatively expensive and not keeping pace with demand growth. IATA is urging the Kazakhstan government to follow ICAO principles and eliminate differential ANSP charges between domestic and international carriers. Currently (2012), it is 18% more expensive to turn around an Airbus A320 in Almaty than at similarly-sized airports in Europe. The differential rises to 43% for a Boeing 767.[4]

There are plans to build a new passenger terminal for international flights with six loading bridges and capacity up to 2,500 passengers per hour in the near future. A developed infrastructure complex consisting of a Marriott Hotel, conference halls, business center, shopping center and cinemas will be located within the territory of this terminal. The new terminal will be located along Kuldja Road in order to help reduce traffic on the way to the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Air Astana Boeing 757-200 taxing at Almaty International Airport.
Uzbekistan Airways Boeing 757-200 at Almaty International Airport.

Passenger

Airlines Destinations
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo[5]
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya		 Saint Petersburg
Air Arabia Sharjah
Air Astana Aktau, Aktobe, Astana, Atyrau, Karaganda, Kyzylorda, Oral,[6] Oskemen, Pavlodar, Taraz (begins 1 June 2016),[7] Uralsk
Air Astana Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing-Capital, Bishkek, Delhi, Dubai-International, Dushanbe, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Kuala Lumpur–International, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Saint Petersburg, Seoul-Incheon, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Ürümqi
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon
Bek Air Aktau,[8] Aktobe, Astana, Atyrau, Kostanay,[9] Oral
Belavia Minsk-National[10]
China Southern Airlines Ürümqi
Czech Airlines Seasonal: Prague[11]
Ellinair Seasonal: Thessaloniki[12]
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi
flydubai Dubai-International[13]
Hainan Airlines Beijing-Capital
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Mahan Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Qazaq Air Astana, Pavlodar, Shymkent, Kostanay, Taldykorgan
S7 Airlines Novosibirsk
SCAT Aktau, Aktobe, Astana, Atyrau, Karaganda, Kokshetau, Kostanay, Mineralnye Vody, Oral, Oskemen, Petropavl, Sanya, Semey, Shymkent, Taraz, Urdjar, Zhezkazgan
Somon Air Dushanbe, Khudzhand
Tajik Air Dushanbe
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
AirBridgeCargo Airlines Hong Kong
Cargolux Budapest, Hong Kong, Luxembourg
Cargolux Italia Hong Kong, Milan-Milpensa
Etihad Crystal Cargo Abu Dhabi, Beijing-Capital
FedEx Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Hong Kong Airlines Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Delhi
Lufthansa Cargo Hong Kong, Tashkent
Martinair Cargo Amsterdam, Hong Kong
MNG Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Silk Way Airlines Baku
Turkish Airlines Cargo Astana, Bishkek, Guangzhou, Istanbul-Atatürk, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong
UPS Cologne/Bonn, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong

Accidents and incidents

  • 7 July 1980, Aeroflot flight 4227: All 163 occupants of a Tupolev Tu-154B-2, tail number CCCP-85355, lost their lives when the aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Alma-Ata Airport. The airplane was due to operate a domestic scheduled Alma-Ata–Simferopol passenger service under the Kazakh division as Flight 4227; the airspeed suddenly dropped because of thermal currents it encountered during climb out, causing the airplane to stall about 5 km (3.1 mi) away, crashing and catching fire.
  • 30 August 1980, Aeroflot Flight CCCP-65129, Tupolev Tu-134 crashed on approach to Almaty after a flight from Chelyabinsk where all 90 passengers and crew died.[14]
  • 29 January 2013, SCAT Airlines flight 760, a Bombardier CRJ200, registration UR-CJ006, crashed during a low-visibility approach into Almaty International Airport that originated from Kokshetau. All 21 occupants died. The deputy mayor of Almaty, Maulen Mukashev, visited the crash site and told reporters that the preliminary cause of the crash is bad weather. The accident is currently under investigation.

See also

References

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  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/01/kc-aladmb-jun16/
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