First Deputy PM instructs government and airports’ management to focus on aviation security

Currently 20 airports operate in the country including 12 state (8 are in trust management of «Airport Management Group»), 6 - private, and 2 airports in PPP.
Within 2015 the airports served about 12 million passengers. Passengers from Kazakhstan fly en 87 international routes. The international flights are operated by 2 Kazakhstani companies - "Air Astana" and "Scat" and foreign air carriers. Domestic flights are carried out by six Kazakh airlines en 42 routes.
At the expense of the republican budget 13 airports of the country were reconstructed (97 billion tenge). In January 2015 in the framework of the state program Nurly Zhol Kazakhstan started the construction of the passenger terminal of Astana airport. The project envisages the expansion of the existing terminal and reaching the capacity to 7 million passengers per year.
At the end of the meeting Bakytzhan Sagintayev instructed the responsible state authorities and the management of the country's airports to focus on security issues. Particular attention should also be paid to special vehicles (firefighting machines, snow removal and deicing equipment, ladders).