Astana International Airport
Tselinograd, Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (IATA: NQZ, ICAO: UACC), alternatively referred by its previous name as Astana International Airport until 2017 (or simply Astana Airport), is the international airport serving Astana, Kazakhstan, the capital and second most populous city in the country. It is the primary aviation hub for northern Kazakhstan. Regionally, it stands as the third-busiest international air passenger gateway into Central Asia (after Almaty International Airport (ALA) and Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan). The airport is also the second-busiest airport in Kazakhstan and the 9th busiest in the Post-Soviet states in terms of total passenger traffic, air traffic movements and total cargo handled, with 8,315,108 passengers served in 2024 (10, 18% year over year increase). On average, the airport handles more than 200 departures a day. It is located in the Esil administrative subdivision of Astana, 6.5 nautical miles (12.0 km, 7.5 mi) south-east of the city centre. The airport features two passenger terminals and single runway along with cargo and maintenance facilities. The airport's passenger domestic terminal (T2, 2000–05) is a well-known
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