Airports in Kazakhstan
24 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.
Kazakhstan has 24 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 19 of them large. The busiest are Almaty International Airport (ALA, 11.4 million passengers, Wikidata, 2024), Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ, 8.3 million passengers, Wikidata, 2024) and Aktau International Airport (SCO, 1.0 million passengers, Wikidata, 2019).
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers |
|---|---|---|
| ALA – IST | 3,933 km | 434,285 |
| ALA – AYT | 3,954 km | 300,822 |
| AYT – NQZ | 3,563 km | 276,923 |
| IST – NQZ | 3,420 km | 272,978 |
| ALA – DEL | 1,642 km | 172,586 |
| FRA – NQZ | 4,323 km | 135,480 |
| ALA – FRA | 5,105 km | 89,491 |
| ALA – ICN | 4,182 km | 82,798 (6 mo) |
| NQZ – SAW | 3,402 km | 79,860 |
| IST – SCO | 1,852 km | 79,369 |
| ALA – BOM | 2,719 km | 56,170 |
| ALA – BJV | 4,190 km | 23,420 |
| ALA – GOI | 3,116 km | 14,654 |
| ICN – NQZ | 4,524 km | 13,874 (6 mo) |
| CIT – ICN | 4,810 km | 12,681 (6 mo) |
Questions
Kazakhstan has 24 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 19 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.
Almaty International Airport (ALA), Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ), Aktau International Airport (SCO), Shymkent International Airport (CIT), Atyrau International Airport (GUW) and Aktobe International Airport (AKX), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.
Almaty International Airport (ALA), with 11.4 million passengers (Wikidata, 2024).