Almaty International Airport
enlarges client circle

June 20, 2008

Almaty International Airport has taken participation in “Air Cargo China” that took place in Shanghai from 17 to 19 June, 2008. There were the representatives of the greatest cargo carriers besides airports as well as logistic and shipping companies at this exhibition.

Almaty Airport represented its stand by means of which it demonstrated opportunities of international hub oriented for bringing in main cargo and passenger traffic between Asia and Europe.   

Almaty International Airport has a number of advantages for further development as a hub:

• an unique geographical location of Almaty;

• highly developed maintenance base for all types of aircraft handling, providing line and base technical maintenance of most of operated types of aircraft, as well as certified professional staff;

• modern equipment for handling, storage, paper work and cargo transportation

Representatives of the Almaty Airport management have carried on a number of negotiations with potential clients-air carriers at the exhibition:

Air Atlanta Icelandic, Air Bridge Cargo,  Cargoitalia,  Ethiopian Airlines,  Emirates Sky Cargo,  Jade Cargo International  Southern Air Inc.,  Sino First International Holdings Ltd.,  Thai Airways International ,   World Airways Cargo. All these airlines are interested in advantage to perform their flights via Almaty International Airport and develop ways of cooperation in the nearest future.     

As a hole popularity of the Almaty International Airport is rising steadily among dominant world air carriers. Present the year 2008 is very rich in launching the new passenger and cargo flights.

In April Latvian “Air Baltic” airline has launched the direct flight from Riga to Almaty.

The “Aerosvit” Ukrainian airline has also launched its direct flight from Almaty to Kiev on 26 April.

Czech National airlines “Czech Airlines” have performed the first direct passenger flight by the route Almaty-Prague-Almaty on 1 May.

It is possible to travel from Almaty to Sochi by aircrafts of “Aeroflot” airline this year.

Foreign air carriers which aircrafts already perform the flights via Almaty are enlarging their presence in the Kazakhstan market. For instance “Cargolux” has increased number of its cargo flights from 3 to 5 times per week as of 5 March.

Thus Almaty International Airport has great development prospects as passenger and cargo hub.