16 March, 2009, Minister of Transport and Communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Abelgazi Kaliakparovich Kussainov visited Almaty International Airport.

In the course of the visit he had a look at construction of new international passenger terminal.   The new runway, freight station and new multimodal freight terminal were presented to him. Also minister observed Air Technical Center, which executed wide range of services by technical services and repair of aircrafts of various makes and modifications from many countries of the world, visited Training Center training aviation security specialists and viewed new four-star hotel, constructed on Almaty airport territory.