 The opening ceremony of the upgraded passenger terminal took place on , with an area measuring .The airport's old and new renovated passenger terminal building was designed by RDSI “KazAeroProject”, a Kazakh research, design and survey institute which also designed Almaty International Airport.The passenger terminal has a capacity of 200 passengers per hour and is equipped with a gallery landing with two gates to air-bridges and six gates to apron buses, 1 escalator and 1 lift.