Almaty International Airport is the most promising airport of the Central Asia in respect of transit and transfer air transportations both domestic and international ones.

Being of interest to many countries of the world it has obtained status of an international hub, oriented for bringing in main cargo and passenger traffic between Asia and Europe.

For the purpose of drawing of international airlines attention Almaty airport carried out overall apron reconstruction that complies with all the world standards. Also Almaty airport put into operation some additional parking places equipped with engineering services for heavy types of aircraft. The second runway was put into operation accepting all types of heavy aircraft without any restrictions.

Popularity of Almaty International Airport is rising steadily among dominant world air carriers. The year 2008 was very rich in launching the new passenger airlines such as Air Baltic that launched the direct flight from Almaty to Riga. The Aerosvit, Ukrainian airline, also launched its direct flight from Almaty to Kiev in 2008. Czech Airlines performed the first direct passenger flight by the route Almaty-Prague-Almaty on May 01. Etihad Airways (UAE) started operating passenger flights on A-319 four times per week by the route Abu-Dhabi – Almaty – Abu-Dhabi. Georgian Airways (Georgia) started passenger operations between Tbilisi and Almaty on B-737 two times per week.

On October 24, 2009, Egypt Air has launched its flights. Now Kazakhstan citizens have the opportunity to fly to any destination in Europe, USA, Asia, Republic of Sought Africa, Morocco, Tunis, Lebanon, Syria, Singapore, Cyprus, Oman, Jordan, Greece, and Israel.
Hainan Airlines is planning to carry out passenger flights on В-737-800 by the route Beijing-Almaty-Beijing two times per week. Bulgaria Air has launched series of charter flights by the route Varna-Almaty-Varna with frequency of operations one time per week. Mahan Air (Iran) is planning to start passenger operations on А-310-320 two times per week by the route Teheran-Almaty-Teheran.

According to Almaty airport data over the years 2000-2009, we can see the considerable growth in cargo flights. The airport became interested to airlines operating between Europe and Asia as geographical location of Almaty is in the middle of this route.

Cargoitalia (Italy) started flight operations on MD-11 with technical stops by the route Milan-Almaty-Hong Kong six times per week. Evergreen started its operations on Boeing 747 up to five times per week with technical stops.

From October 26, 2009, Cargolux carries out up to ten flights per week. Lufthansa Cargo operates nine flights per week. Air China Cargo launched cargo flights operated on B-747 by the route Dubai-Almay-Shanghai one time per week with the commercial rights.

 
Air Cargo Germany started flight operations with the commercial rights on Boeing 747 two times per week.

According to the analysis data made in Almaty airport it is safe to say that passenger and cargo flights in Almaty International Airport have gradual and stable growth.