Almaty International Airport

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Almaty International Airport Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы Международный Аэропорт Алматы
IATA: ALA - ICAO: UAAA
Summary
Airport type		Civil
Operator		JSC Almaty International Airport
Serves		Almaty
Elevation AMSL		2234 ft (681 m)
Coordinates		43°21′07″N, 77°02′26″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
05/23	14,427	4,397	Asphalt

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.

1 History
2 Airlines
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] 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.

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

Presentation of the project of a new runway construction took place at Almaty International Airport on July 19, 2006. The construction of the second runway has been started as early as 1992 but was frozen due to the lack of funds. Operations were resumed in 2006 owing to investments of AIA JSC shareholders. Project’s cost is USD 50 millions. 7 millions has been applied for the present moment.

The new runway will accept all types of aircraft without limitation of take-off weight and operations frequency.

Technical characteristics of the second runway are as follows:

Dimensions: length – 4.400 m, width – 45 m.

Carrying capacity factor of the runway is 60.

Take-off and landing of aircraft will be performed:

- from the magnetic course 232 as per ICAO CAT III meteominimum

- from the magnetic course 052 as per ICAO CAT I meteominimum

It is planned to build a new passenger terminal for international flights with six loading bridges and capacity up to 2500 passengers per hour in the nearest future. Developed infrastructure complex consisting of: a Marriot Hotel, conference halls, business center, shopping center, cinemas will be located within the territory of this terminal. The new terminal will be located along Kuldja road that will help to reduce traffic on the way to the airport.

[edit] Airlines

[edit] International destinations

Air Arabia (Sharjah)
Air Astana (Antalya, Bangkok, Beijing, Delhi, Dubai, Hannover, Frankfurt, Istanbul-Atatürk, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Seoul-Incheon)
Altyn Air (Bishkek)
Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)
Aurela (Vilnus)
British Airways
- operated by BMED (Ekaterinburg, London-Heathrow)
China Southern Airlines (Urumqi)
Georgian National Airlines (Tbilisi)
Kam Air (Kabul)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Mega (Baku)
Rossiya Airlines (St. Petersburg)
Samara Airlines (Samara)
S7 Airlines (Chelyabinsk)
SCAT (Dushanbe, Ulegei)
Tajikistan Airlines (Dushanbe, Kurgan-Tyube)
Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Turkish Airlines (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
UM Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil, Simferopol)
Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)

[edit] 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)