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Airport information for Almaty Airport Country: Kazakhstan Location: Almaty Coordinates: 43.21.00N / 077.02.00E IATA Code: ALA Timezone: GMT +6 Direct flights form Almaty Airport Direct flights to Almaty Airport Find connecting flights to Almaty Airport Find connecting flights from Almaty Airport

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Almaty International Airport (Kazakh: Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы, Russian: Международный Аэропорт Алма-Аты) (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA) is the biggest international airport in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. It is turn up approximately 18 kilometres (11 land mile) from the center of Almaty, the commonwealth's biggest town and commercial capital. Almaty airport accounts for one-half of rider traffic and 68% of freight traffic to Kazakhstan. In 2006, the airport dealt 2.0 million riders (23% development to 2005).

History

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

Following a landing track reconstruction in 1998, Almaty airport was presented II family and position of an International Airport.

On nine July 1999 a fire set about in the kitchen of the airport eating house. The whole depot construction burn up in merely a few 60 minutes, fortuitously without major trauma. Construction of a new depot was finished in 2004.

The old Soviet-era depot

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

On September 30th, 2008 the landing track was opened with a 1st going away of a BMI voyage bond for London Heathrow. The new landing track has also been given an ICAO certification for CAT III landings which will significantly cut down the figure of airplanes deviate to nearby fields due to low visibleness, particularly during the wintertime calendar month. The new landing track is able to accept all typewrites of aircraft without limitation of take-off weight and functioning oftenness.

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