Kokshetau Airport

Kokshetau International Airport

Халықаралық Көкшетау Әуежайы

Halyqaralyq Kökşetau Äuejaıy
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerMinistry of Industry and Infrastructure Development[1]
OperatorJSC "Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport"
ServesKokshetau and Burabay National Park
Location8.1 NM (15.0 km; 9.3 mi) NE of Kokshetau, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan (inside city limits)
Opened1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Hub forAir Kokshetau (defunct)
Time zoneALMT (UTC+06:00)
Elevation AMSL271 m / 888 ft
Coordinates53°19′48″N 069°35′48″E / 53.33000°N 69.59667°E / 53.33000; 69.59667
Maps
KOV/UACK is located in Kazakhstan
KOV/UACK
KOV/UACK
Location of the airport in Kazakhstan
KOV/UACK is located in Asia
KOV/UACK
KOV/UACK
KOV/UACK (Asia)
KOV/UACK is located in Eurasia
KOV/UACK
KOV/UACK
KOV/UACK (Eurasia)
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
02/20 2,850 9,350 Concrete/asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Passengers11,877
Passenger change 19–20Decrease 45.2%
Source: AIP Kazakhstan[2]

Kokshetau International Airport[a] (IATA: KOV, ICAO: UACK) is an international airport in Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. It is the primary international airport serving Kokshetau, and also the nearest to the Burabay National Park and Kokshetau National Park.

Opened in 1945, it is the seventeenth-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in Kazakhstan, with 21,683 annual passengers as of 2019. The airport is located 8.1 NM (15.0 km; 9.3 mi) north-east[2] from the centre of Kokshetau, the capital of Akmola Region in the northern part of Kazakhstan.

The airport began its new operational phase on 21 October 2013, with new building and runway structure, replacing old structure on the same site. The airport features one fully reconstructed passenger terminal and one runway, which handles both domestic and international operations.[3] The airport is served year-round by Qazaq Air and SCAT Airlines, and was formerly a hub for Air Kokshetau operations which was also headquartered in the city.

The main route is the service to Almaty, operated by Qazaq Air. The airport is managed by JSC "Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport", a government-owned corporation that manages Astana Airport. The facility opened in 1945; 79 years ago (1945) as Kokchetav Airport (the airport's current IATA code, KOV, is derived from the city's previous name of Kokchetav).

  1. ^ Nursultan Nazarbayev International. "Сorporate Governance - Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport". nn-airport.kz. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  2. ^ a b AIP Kazakhstan Archived 2013-06-16 at archive.today
  3. ^ "Kokshetau airport will accept Airbus and Embraer after reconstruction". Retrieved 26 November 2019.


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