Almaty International Airport
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Almaty International Airport Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы Международный Аэропорт Алматы |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | JSC Almaty International Airport | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Almaty | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Almaty, Kazakhstan (inside city limits) | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 681 m / 2,234 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°21′19″N 077°02′41″E / 43.35528°N 77.04472°ECoordinates: 43°21′19″N 077°02′41″E / 43.35528°N 77.04472°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | alaport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Source: AIP Kazakhstan
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| Passengers | 4,003,004 |
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Almaty International Airport (Kazakh: Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, Xalıqaralıq Almatı Äwejayı, Russian: Международный Аэропорт Алматы, Mezhdunarodnyy Aeroport Almaty) (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA) is the largest international airport in Kazakhstan. It is about 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of Almaty, the country's largest city and commercial capital. Almaty airport accounts for half of passenger traffic and 68% of cargo traffic to Kazakhstan. In 2012, the airport handled 4,003,004 passengers, including 1,997,570 arriving passengers, and 2,005,434 departing passengers.
Almaty International Airport JSC is 100% owned by Venus Airport Investments B.V., a company registered in Amsterdam.
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 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 II category and 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, 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.
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