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Almaty International Airport (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA) (Kazakh: Halyqaralyq Almaty Äuejaiy) is a major international airport 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of Almaty,[2] the largest city and commercial capital of Kazakhstan. It is the busiest airport in Kazakhstan, accounting for 6.42 million passengers in 2019.[3]

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Almaty International Airport Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы (Kazakh)
IATA: ALA[1] ICAO: UAAA[1] WMO: 36870
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Groupe ADP
Operator	TAV Airports Holding
Serves	Almaty
Location	Almaty, Kazakhstan (inside city limits)
Hub for	Air Astana FlyArystan Qazaq Air
Focus city for	SCAT Airlines
Elevation AMSL	681 m / 2,234 ft
Coordinates	43°21′19″N 077°02′41″E
Website	almaty-kazakhstan.net/travel/almaty-airport
Map
ALA/UAAA Location in Almaty, Kazakhstan Show map of Kazakhstan ALA/UAAA ALA/UAAA (Asia) Show map of Asia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05R/23L 4,400 14,436 Concrete 05L/23R 4,500 14,764 Concrete
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 6,422,721
Source: AIP Kazakhstan[2]

Owners and management

The airport is registered under name of "JSC Almaty International Airport", which is owned by Turkish airport company TAV Airports Holding, as well as many other airports available worldwide.

History

Early years

The airport was built in 1935 for use by small civil and military aircraft.[4] 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 began 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 a CAT II certificate and the status of an international airport.

On 9 July 1999, a fire started in the shashlik kitchen of the airport restaurant. The terminal building burned down in just a few hours, but without major injuries.

Development since 2000

Construction of a new terminal was completed in 2004. On 30 September 2008, a second runway was opened with the first departure being a BMI flight bound for London Heathrow. The new runway was also 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. The runway is the longest in central Asia. The new runway can accept all types of aircraft without limitation of take-off weight and operation 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.[5]

There were 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 were planned to be within this terminal.

The new terminal was to be located along Kuldja Road to help reduce traffic on the way to the airport. However the terminal's construction was stopped due to managers postponing the project's construction in 2010 because of disagreements with Air Astana's plans for the terminal which was intended to serve Air Astana international flights while the existing terminal would serve domestic destinations. According to the managers, the problems of this plan would be that Air Astana would have faculties operating, and its planes transferring from one end of the runway to another which would create delayed transporting problems for Air Astana; since the runway lines would be busy with the having lack of space of creating new runways. There has been a conclusion to demolish the construction and rebuild the new terminal used for domestic and international flights. There are now plans to build a new airport in Kapchagai reservoir which is 48 km away from Almaty.[6]

On February 17, 2012, in Moscow, at the 32nd session of the Council on Aviation and the Use of Airspace of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), Almaty International Airport was recognized as the best in the CIS and received the prize "For Achievements in the Development of International Airports".[7]

Protesters seized the airport on 5 January during the 2022 Kazakh unrest, halting flights. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that eight members of Kazakh security forces had been killed and the insurgents had hijacked five airplanes, and he appealed to Russian security forces to retake the facility.[8][9] On 7 January, TASS reported that Collective Security Treaty Organization troops had occupied the airport and restored order.[10]^{[better source needed]}

In May 2022, a proposal was made to Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar by a group of deputies from the People's Party of Kazakhstan to name the airport after Kazakh Soviet communist politician Dinmukhamed Kunaev.[11]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia	Sharjah
Air Astana[12]	Aktau, Aktobe, Antalya, Astana, Atyrau, Baku, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Beijing–Capital (resumes 22 November 2022),[13] Bishkek, Chengdu–Shuangliu,[14] Colombo–Bandaranaike,[15] Delhi, Dubai–International, Dushanbe, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyzylorda, London–Heathrow,[16] Malè, Oral, Oskemen, Seoul–Incheon, Shymkent, Tashkent, Tbilisi Seasonal: Bodrum, Heraklion,[17] Podgorica[18] Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala,[19] Sharm El Sheikh
Air Seychelles	Seasonal charter: Mahé[20]
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga
AnadoluJet	Ankara (begins 19 November 2022)[21]
Asiana Airlines	Seoul–Incheon
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku
Belavia	Minsk
FlyArystan	Aktau, Aktobe, Astana, Atyrau,[22] Karagandy, Kokshetau, Kostanay, Omsk, Oral, Pavlodar, Petropavl, Semey, Shymkent, Taraz, Turkistan,[23] Yerevan[24]
flydubai	Dubai–International
flynas	Jeddah[25]
Hunnu Air	Ulaanbaatar
Jazeera Airways	Kuwait City[26]
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Neos	Milan–Malpensa[27]
Nordwind	Kaliningrad,[28] Samara[29]
Pegasus Airlines	Ankara,[30] Antalya, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Qatar Airways	Doha[31]
Qazaq Air	Astana, Shymkent, Taraz[32]
Qeshm Air	Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Red Wings Airlines	Makhachkala, Moscow–Zhukovsky, Yekaterinburg
Rossiya Airlines	Sochi[33]
S7 Airlines	Novosibirsk
SCAT Airlines[34]	Aktau, Aktobe, Astana, Atyrau, Balkhash,[35] Haikou,[36] Jeddah,[37] Karagandy, Kokshetau, Kostanay, Kyzylorda,[38] Medina,[37] Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Oral, Oskemen, Petropavl, Ras Al Khaimah,[39] Semey, Shymkent, Taraz, Zhezkazgan Seasonal: Antalya,[40] Sanya Seasonal charter: Hambantota–Mattala[41]
SkyUp	Kyiv–Boryspil[42]
Somon Air	Dushanbe
Sunday Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya, Malè, Nha Trang, Sanya, Sharm El Sheikh
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
Turkmenistan Airlines	Ashgabat
Utair	Tyumen
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent
VietJet Air	Nha Trang[43]
Wizz Air	Abu Dhabi[44]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Cargolux[45]	Luxembourg
Cargolux Italia[46]	Milan–Malpensa
Qatar Airways Cargo[47]	Doha, Hong Kong
Silk Way West Airlines[48]	Baku
Turkish Cargo[49]	Bishkek, Guangzhou, Istanbul, Seoul–Incheon, Nur-Sultan, Shanghai–Pudong, Taipei–Taoyuan
UPS Airlines[citation needed]	Cologne/Bonn, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong

Statistics

Annual traffic

Annual passenger traffic[50][51]^{[non-primary source needed]}[52]

Year	Passengers	% Change
2010	3,000,000
2011	3,665,538	22.2%
2012	4,003,004	9.2%
2013	4,323,224	8%
2014	4,588,866	6%
2015	4,905,307	6.9%
2016	4,878,450	0.5%
2017	5,640,800	15.6%
2018	5,686,926	1%
2019	6,422,721	13%

Accidents and incidents

• 7 July 1980: Aeroflot Flight 4225, a Tupolev Tu-154B-2, aircraft registration CCCP-85355, crashed with the loss of all 156 passengers and 10 crew shortly after takeoff from Alma-Ata Airport. Investigators found that the airspeed suddenly dropped because of a downdraft the aircraft encountered during climb out, causing it to stall, crash about 5 km (3.1 mi) from the airport, and catch fire.[53]
• 30 August 1983: Aeroflot Flight 5463, a Tupolev Tu-134, crashed on approach to Almaty after a flight from Chelyabinsk; all 90 passengers and crew died.
• 29 January 2013: SCAT Airlines Flight 760, a Bombardier CRJ-200ER, crashed during a low-visibility approach into Almaty International. All 21 occupants died. Investigators found that during the missed approach necessitated by the inclement weather, the elevator was deflected to lower the nose instead of raising the nose, resulting in a steep dive and impact with the ground; they were unable to determine the cause of the elevator movement but did not find evidence of any system malfunction or external influences.
• 27 December 2019: Thirteen people died when Bek Air Flight 2100, a Fokker 100, crashed en route to Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport, crashing into a building just after takeoff.
• 13 March 2021: An Antonov An-26 operating for the Border Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan crashed on landing; four occupants died and the two survivors reportedly suffered serious injuries. The cause of the accident is under investigation.[54][55]

See also

• List of airports in Kazakhstan
• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR

References

External links

Media related to Almaty International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for ALA at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for UAAA at NOAA/NWS

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Almaty

Der Flughafen Almaty (kasachisch Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы) (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA) ist mit 6,1 Millionen Passagieren (Stand 2021) der größte Flughafen des asiatischen Landes Kasachstan und liegt etwa 18 Kilometer von der ehemaligen Hauptstadt Almaty entfernt. Hier findet sowohl nationaler als auch internationaler Flugverkehr statt.

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- [en] Almaty International Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional de Almatý

El Aeropuerto Internacional de Almatý (en kazajo: Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, en ruso: Международный Аэропорт Алматы) (código IATA: ALA - código ICAO: UAAA) es un aeropuerto situado a 18 km del centro de Almatý, la segunda ciudad más poblada por detrás de la capital de Kazajistán Astaná y segunda ciudad comercial de Kazajistán. Es el segundo principal aeropuerto del país, solo por detrás del aeropuerto internacional de Astaná.

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[fr] Aéroport international d'Almaty

L’aéroport international d'Almaty (kazakh : Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, russe : Международный Аэропорт Алматы) (code IATA : ALA • code OACI : UAAA) est le plus grand aéroport international au Kazakhstan situé à environ 18 kilomètres du centre d'Almaty, la plus grande ville et capitale commerciale du Kazakhstan.

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[it] Aeroporto di Almaty

L'Aeroporto di Almaty (in russo: Международный аэропорт Алматы ?, traslitterato: Meždunarodnyj Aèroport Almaty) (ICAO: UAAA - IATA: ALA) è un aeroporto situato a 18 km dal centro di Almaty, nel Kazakistan.

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[ru] Алматы (аэропорт)

Международный аэропорт Алматы (каз. Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, Halyqaralyq Almaty Äuejaiy), (ИАТА: ALA, ИКАО: UAAA) — главный международный аэропорт города Алма-Аты, первый в Казахстане по объёму пассажиропотока, расположен в северной части города. Аэропорт находится в 15 километрах от центра Алма-Аты. Эксплуатацию аэропорта осуществляет АО «Международный аэропорт Алматы», 100 % акций принадлежат турецкому холдингу TAV Airports Holding[1]. Является первым в мире аэропортом, в который прибыл рабочий рейс, проходящий со сверхзвуковой скоростью (первый в мире сверхзвуковой лайнер Ту-144 26 декабря 1975 года).

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