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Almaty Airport review by Alberto Pezzotti
1 June 2006 Customer Rating : n/a
Almaty airport is fine. Usual CIS queue upon arrival at passport
control. Barely no customs control upon arrival. The terminal is clean
and you don't see any strange faces around. I also agree you should
avoid people trying to take your luggage into the terminal and then
charging high prices for the service. Upon departure for international
flights you have to pass a customs control where they random pick
somebody. I was picked-up but customs officers have been friendly and
upon explanation why I was there everything was ok. Check in facilities
are fine as is passport control, duty free and toilets. A good
improvement since my last visit in 2005 is a full body scan. I was
randomly chosen for a check too (maybe it was my day for this) and in
less than 3 mins I was back with the other passengers waiting for the
plane.
Almaty Airport review by David Fraisse
15 March 2006
A vast improvement on the temporary arrangments that pertained after the
old International terminal burned down. Customs (once a time-consuming
and intimidating business) has disappeared in both Arrivals and
Departures, as has the on-arrival baggage scan. A clean, modern and
well-equipped terminal with a coffee shop for waiting until you are
admitted for check-in (2 hours prior to international flights); a
spacious departure lounge; good clean lavatories; a "business" lounge
that charges for admission and where everyone smokes (though there's
also a smoking booth in the departure lounge). Shopping nothing special;
anything you might want (local vodka; caviar) is way cheaper in town.
Watch out for scam-merchants trying to charge you for a luggage trolley.
Almaty Airport review by Dave Stanley
29 January 2006
Alun Hunt's comments are fair. The business lounge does seem to be used
as the smoking lounge, making it unusable for us non-smokers. The
shopping is a little limited, but it is modern and clean.
Almaty Airport review by Alan Hunt
29 May 2005
A new terminal well set out for the high volume of traffic it handles. Composite business lounge
charges for the privilege of wanting a drink but comfortable. Only issue I could see was the queues
to actually get to the check in areas. On three occasions early in the morning when many flights
depart they had just the one point of entry to check in. Once in the queues were no worse then
anywhere else. Staff generally OK but too many people around wearing military style uniforms making
it difficult to work out what their airport role was.
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