Almaty airport
| Almaty Airport Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы  |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UAAA |
| IATA code | ALA |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 681 m (2234 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 18 km northeast of Almaty |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1935 |
| operator | JSC Almaty International Airport |
| Passengers | 5,640,800 (2017) |
| Runways | |
| 05R / 23L | 4397 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 05L / 23R | 4500 m × 45 m concrete |
The airport Almaty ( Kazakh Халықаралық Алматы Әуежайы , Russian Международный Аэропорт Алматы ) ( IATA : ALA , ICAO : UAAA ) with 5.6 million passengers (2017) is the largest airport of the Asian country Kazakhstan and is located about 18 kilometers from the former capital Almaty away. Both national and international air traffic takes place here.
Airport facilities and airlines
The airport has two runways and one terminal. Almaty is one of two aviation hubs for the national airline Air Astana , formerly also for the predecessor Air Kazakhstan . It is also the home airport of Fly Arystan and Qazaq Air .
Lufthansa , Aeroflot and Turkish Airlines all fly to Almaty Airport from Europe .
Incidents
- On January 29, 2013, all 16 passengers and the five crew members of a Bombardier CRJ200 were killed on SCAT flight 760 after the pilots had to abort the approach to runway 23R due to a lack of ground visibility and the aircraft descended for an unexplained reason when it took off passed over.
- On December 27, 2019, twelve of the 95 passengers and five crew members of a Fokker 100 on Bek-Air flight 2100 were killed after the machine collapsed again shortly after take-off and broke through a concrete wall behind the runway before it hit one Building collided.
See also
Web links
Commons : Almaty International Airport - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Almaty International Airport
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Аэропорт Алматы вошел в Топ-10 лучших на постсоветском пространстве , accessed on January 26, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ Вылет. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
