The airport was founded in 1935. Up to 1990 it was the part of Kazakh Department of Civil Aviation. On April 26, 1991 the airport had been re-organized into "Alma-Ata Airport", and beginning from 1993 it run as an independent business unit. In 1994 it was re-organized into OJSC "Almaty Airport", later re-named to JSC "Almaty International Airport". The airport capacity is equal to 800 seats, the hall possibility is around 350-400 people per hour. Total amount of employees is 3200.

In February 2003, "Key_Century" began the implementation of SAP R/3. In the period from July to October 2003 were carried out organizational work, trained users, carried out conceptual design, configuration and testing of the system. And also was carried out works on modernization of the corporate network and ensure the communication channels of remote units, created a computer-based servers complex at Sun Microsystems.

Since January 2004, in productive operation launched components such as Financial Management, Managerial Accounting, Sales Management and Materials Management. Since mid-2004 implemented budgeting system of enterprises on the based functionality Managerial accounting, budget management, maintenance and repair of equipment.

In 2006, completed the integration of decision management and staff of SAP Business Information Warehouse.