Kazakhstan is located between two continents - Europe and Asia. The nearest neighbors of our country are Russia, China and the Islamic states of Central Asia.

Almaty International Airport

The Almaty International Airport (Almaty, Kazakhstan) has an advantageous geographical location on the route from South-Eastern Asia to Europe and back.
The airport was founded in 1935. Up to 1990 it was the part of Kazakh Department of Civil Aviation. On April26, 1991 the airport had been re-organized into "Alma-Ata Airport", and beginning from 1993 it run as an independent business unit. In 1994 it was re-organized into OJSC "Almaty Airport", later re-named to JSC Almaty International Airport. The runway is equipped with the latest technology, meeting ICAO international standards. It was reconstructed in 1998 to provide for the safe arrivals of comfortable modern airliners at the Almaty airport.

Currently the Almaty International Airportpersonnel works hard to improve the facilities making able the technical landing ofand cargo transportations with such largeaircrafts as Boeing 747. Using the Almaty airport for the re-fueling of Boeing 747 aircrafts allows for economic benefits to the airlines as the aircrafts' capacity may be increased.
Many leading foreign air companies have chosen Almaty International Airport for implementing regular flights and technical landings: Lufthansa, Korean Air, KLM, British Airways, Turkish Airlines, China Xinjiang Airlines, Iran Air, Transaero, Volga – Dnepr, Air France, EL AL Israel Airlines, and Air Freighting Express LTD

International Airport Astana

International Airport Astana was founded in 1931 as not large airport for small aircraft handling. Nowadays, after 80 years, it’s one of the most modern airports on the Eurasian continent. There are about 40 flights every day to CIS and non-CIS states regions.

Nowadays, airport Astana has capability receive all types of aircraft without any limits. The Development of airport Astana is carried out in accordance with international standards of IATA (InternationalAirTransport Association) and ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). Airport is a member of the international organization as Ground Handling Council IATA. The favorable conditions are made for cooperation with new airlines, as for cargo and passenger one.

Airport’s advantage is the geographic location, which is in the middle of Eurasia and this very location attracts foreign airlines.

Airport Astana is certificated as IIIA category of ICAO standards. Installed modern equipment gives possibility to dispatchers of tower to find out, identify and escort aircraft and special techniques on the flight field, which screens on the towerman’s monitor. It allows to control and provide safety of traffic on the aerodrome at bad visibility. Now airport Astana can accept and dispatch aircraft with runway visibility till 200 meters and more, аs for the past period the meteorological minimum of aerodrome was 350 meters. Even, if it is rainy or windy, airport Astana gives possibility to aircraft to make safe landing at horizontal visibility only 200 meters and vertical - 15.

Kazakhstan by train.
Kazakhstan has an advanced railway system, connecting Western China, Russia, and Central Asian countries.

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