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Taraz Airport (UADD/DMB) is a large international airport a short distance southwest of Taraz in Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan, operated as Aulie-Ata International Airport by SCAT Airlines. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped runway capable of handling wide-body traffic, making it a notable waypoint for VFR and IFR pilots crossing southern Kazakhstan.
Taraz Airport, also known as Aulie-Ata International Airport, serves the city of Taraz (formerly Jambyl and Aulie-Ata) in southern Kazakhstan. It is operated by SCAT Airlines, which has been the sole shareholder of the airport company since 2011, and handles a mix of scheduled passenger services, seasonal charters and significant cargo traffic. For a simulator pilot the field is of interest for its single very long hard runway, full ILS approach and its role as a stated alternate for Almaty, Tashkent, Bishkek and Shymkent.
The airport lies about 8.5 km (5.3 nautical miles) southwest of the city of Taraz, in Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan, at coordinates 42.8544N, 71.3022E. It shares its airfield with military units of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, indicating co-located civil and military operations.
Taraz has a single physical runway, 13/31, oriented northwest-southeast, with a hard (asphalt) surface and runway lighting. Declared lengths are 9,514 feet for Runway 13 and 8,794 feet for Runway 31. Both directions are served by an ILS, giving pilots a precision approach onto this substantial strip, which is long enough to accommodate wide-body aircraft.
Air traffic services are provided on a combined Approach and Tower frequency of 122.1 MHz. Both directions of the runway are equipped with ILS, providing an instrument approach aid in addition to the runway lighting.
Taraz Airport was established in 1974, and the operating company, Aulie-Ata International Airport JSC, was formed in 2000; SCAT Airlines JSC has held 100 percent of the shares since 2011. Faced with an urgent need to improve the runway's technical characteristics, the shareholders arranged for it to be transferred to the state balance sheet for overhaul, and a major reconstruction of the runway and its lighting was completed in November 2013 at a cost of 4.6 billion tenge, producing a runway measuring 3,500 by 60 metres with a PCN of 60/B/X/T. SCAT Airlines separately funded the strengthening and widening of taxiways, aprons and parking stands at its own expense, work intended to allow simultaneous handling of up to eight jet aircraft, including up to four large wide-bodies such as the Boeing 747, Antonov An-124 and Airbus A380. A new passenger terminal, construction of which began in May 2013 and finished in the third quarter of 2015, was built to a design capacity of 650,000 passengers a year.
Taraz functions as an active international airport with scheduled services; SCAT Airlines and Air Astana operate Taraz-Astana-Taraz flights seven times a week, S7 Airlines flies Taraz-Moscow-Taraz weekly, and Qazaq Air serves Taraz-Almaty-Taraz twice weekly, alongside seasonal charter flights to destinations such as Novosibirsk, Phu Quoc and Sharm El Sheikh. The airport also handles substantial daily cargo traffic, including Boeing 747-400F and Airbus A300-600F freighters, and is noted as a suitable alternate for Almaty, Tashkent, Bishkek and Shymkent. Given its scale and mixed civil/military use, prior permission is required for visiting aircraft.