Almaty International Airport
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Almaty International Airport[lower-alpha 1] (IATA: ALA, ICAO: UAAA), is the largest international airport of Kazakhstan, surpassing Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ) in Astana and the principal hub of Air Astana. It serves Almaty, the largest and most populous city in the country, and, with its surface transport links, much of the rest of the country.
Almaty International Airport Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы Halyqaralyq Almaty Äuejaiy | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Groupe ADP | ||||||||||||||
Operator | TAV Airports Holding | ||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||
Website | alaport | ||||||||||||||
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It is the busiest airport both in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. In 2023, the airport handled 9,547,136 passengers per year for the first time.[3] In 2022, Almaty International Airport had a total of 7.2 million passengers, 63% of whom were domestic passengers and 37% international passengers.[4] In 2022, the airport handled 88,400 tonnes cargo making the airport the largest one in Kazakhstan in terms of tonnes of cargo handled that year.