Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport, alternatively referred by its previous name as Astana International Airport until 2017, 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 second-busiest international air passenger gateway into Central Asia after Almaty International Airport (ALA). The airport is also the second-busiest airport in terms of total passenger traffic, air traffic movements and total cargo handled in Kazakhstan, with ~7,500,000 passengers served annually in 2023, a 25% increase compared with 2022, a new passenger record for the airport. On average, the airport handles more than 200 departures a day.
Exterior of Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport, 26 September 2021
An aerial view of NQZ International Terminal 1 in July 2021 including the Astana Light Metro visible in the background
Terminal 1, completed in 2017, now houses Kazakhstan's flag carrier Air Astana. This picture is from 2023.
Interior of the International Terminal (Terminal 1) departure hall in 2019
Astana, previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, is the capital city of Kazakhstan.
Image: Central Downtown Astana 2
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Image: Central Downtown Astana 1
Image: Nazarbayev University