Reviews Almaty International Airport

Name: Almaty International Airport
Rating: 2.7

2.7 from 9 reviews

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Viktor Molokostov

4.2

Sometimes you can't pay by credit card in boarding area. Luckily it happens not so often.

Date: 08.04.2012

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Zhan

3.3

Almaty International Airport is the biggest airport in Kazakhstan. The service is pretty good. It has two runways. It is available to have a Boeing 747 landings right here. Runways have no defects, always clean.

Date: 27.08.2014

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Anastasia

The only way to get to the airport at night is by taxi or own car. There is tasty and inexpensive food in the canteen and cafe in the airport building. When entering the country you must fill in a migration card, be ready and don't forget a pen!

Date: 13.03.2017

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James

2.8

Long immigration process, terrible lounge.

Date: 30.05.2012

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Yerbol

2.8

Hard to get to the airport at early morning, only taxi, no public transport.
Check in was OK.
Security also OK.
Facilities not so godd. There is no fast food in airport terminal.
Wi-Fi wasn't working properly.
Airport needs fast food service for passengers and transit passengers.
Lounge is not very good.

Date: 30.09.2015

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Max Kniaziev

2.3

Awful airport due to its size and lack of facilites. Thanks God free WI-FI is available. Shame to have such an airport for such a city.

Date: 31.08.2013

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Fischer

2.3

Terrible place, seems a bus station more than an airport. Super expensive disgusting cafeteria's. They make you wait in some kind of waiting hall if your flight isn't checking in yet. You can't barely sit and there is no place to charge your phone/laptop/tablet, unless you sit in one of the cafeteria's. Getting there is simply by taxi, not sure if there is public transportation to the airport, but taxi isn't expensive.

Date: 24.02.2015

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Johannes

2.2

Getting there: only by taxi (or bus, if you speak russian - slow!)
Check-in: super duper ultra slow and only starts 2 hours before take-off. Including baggage drop, which is just as slow! No special line for Business Class (well there is one - but it's used by just about everybody else as well. Doesn't count. Security check: plenty. at pretty much every corner someone stands to check you whatever. Takes time, consumes nerves and seems to be good for nothing. Rules are arbitrary, sometimes, honey is taken away, sometmes, cognac, sometimes ... whoever cares. Anything can be redeemed by paying the personal and immediate security fee ... for exporting more than 500g of honey. Whatever...
WiFi: unstable, connection fails
services: the minimum is covered. Duty-Free shop is decent, albeit not cheap
Lounge: a joke, seriously. Though as Lufthansa / KLM-passenger you will get a single bottle of beer. And instant-noodles + microwave. One pack per passenger.

Date: 11.09.2016

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Johannes

1.8

Getting to the airport: only by bus, only if you are a local + russian fluency - a precondition
Check-in: Incredibly slow and as if it were the first time in their life they ever did somehting like that
Security Check: A first check to enter the airport, a second to enter the check-in area, a third after check-in, another check after security check, to check the documents once again, last check when entering the gangway, very last check, when leaving the gangway. Lengthy, at times chaotic and with seemingly arbitrary rules (Export of more than 1 litre of cognac for example is sometimes illegal etc.)
WiFi: Connection failed and was impossible to get
Food services: very limited
Lounge: best thing: a microwave + plastic-box-noodles. If you fly Lufthansa / KLM: a single free bottle of beer is included. No newspapers.