Shymkent Airport (CIT)
A working profile of Shymkent Airport in Chimkent, Kazakhstan: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Shymkent Airport
- Serves: Chimkent, Kazakhstan
- Coordinates: 42.3642, 69.4789
- Elevation: 1,385 ft
- Time zone: Asia/Qyzylorda
Shymkent Airport sits inside the air network of Kazakhstan. It shows 10 distinct scheduled departures across 8 destinations and 6 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from CIT
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALA | Almaty Airport | Alma-ata | Kazakhstan | CIT→ALA | 2 |
| TSE | Astana International Airport | Tselinograd | Kazakhstan | CIT→TSE | 2 |
| DME | Domodedovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | CIT→DME | 1 |
| SCO | Aktau Airport | Aktau | Kazakhstan | CIT→SCO | 1 |
| LED | Pulkovo Airport | St. Petersburg | Russia | CIT→LED | 1 |
| SHJ | Sharjah International Airport | Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | CIT→SHJ | 1 |
| OVB | Tolmachevo Airport | Novosibirsk | Russia | CIT→OVB | 1 |
| VKO | Vnukovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | CIT→VKO | 1 |
Airlines operating at CIT
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from CIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| DV | Scat Air | Kazakhstan | 4 |
| KC | Air Astana | Kazakhstan | 2 |
| EG | Japan Asia Airways | Japan | 1 |
| G9 | Air Arabia | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| S7 | S7 Airlines | Russia | 1 |
| UN | Transaero Airlines | Russia | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into CIT typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALA | Almaty Airport | Alma-ata | Kazakhstan | 2 |
| TSE | Astana International Airport | Tselinograd | Kazakhstan | 2 |
| DME | Domodedovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | 1 |
| SCO | Aktau Airport | Aktau | Kazakhstan | 1 |
| KQT | Qurghonteppa International Airport | Kurgan Tyube | Tajikistan | 1 |
| TJU | Kulob Airport | Kulyab | Tajikistan | 1 |
| SHJ | Sharjah International Airport | Sharjah | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| OVB | Tolmachevo Airport | Novosibirsk | Russia | 1 |
| VKO | Vnukovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from CIT on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list CIT to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat CIT as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.