The sector is held by Air Astana.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ALA Almaty to LCA Larnaca
Almaty International, Kazakhstan, to Larnaca International, Cyprus. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,817 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 06m
- Door to door
- 11h 51m
What ALA to LCA looks like
The ALA to LCA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Almaty ALA to Larnaca LCA is a long haul sector of 3,817 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,817 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 06m.
Almaty ALA is a large airport in the network held here, 86 scheduled destinations and 162 departures a day. Larnaca LCA has 86 destinations and 120 departures a day.
Larnaca runs 3 hours behind of Almaty in January and 2 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ALA to LCA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALA to LCA | 0.43 | 3 | Air Astana |
| LCA to ALA | 0.43 | 3 | Air Astana |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Astana, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on ALA to LCA, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 5h 06m block time on ALA to LCA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ALA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ALA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ALA to LCA in the air, estimated | 306 min | 9h 36m |
| Formalities at LCA | 90 min | 11h 06m |
| Delivery run in Larnaca | 45 min | 11h 51m |
| Door to door | 711 min | 11h 51m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ALA to LCA is 11h 51m.
A courier who leaves Almaty at 09:00 local is on the ground in Larnaca at about 11:06 local and at the door by 13:21 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Larnaca, the last useful departure from Almaty is around 13:39 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 9 of them join ALA to LCA.
| Connecting at | ALA to hub, flights a day | Hub to LCA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tbilisi TBS | 1.86 | 1.29 | 3,863 | 6h 56m |
| Doha DOH | 2.14 | 1.57 | 5,087 | 8h 31m |
| Dubai DXB | 3.71 | 2.43 | 5,157 | 9h 06m |
| Warsaw WAW | 0.71 | 2 | 6,363 | 10h 04m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 1.43 | 1.86 | 7,728 | 12h 00m |
| London LHR | 0.71 | 4.57 | 8,902 | 13h 13m |
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tbilisi TBS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TBS the routing covers 3,863 km against the 3,817 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 56m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Doha DOH at 8h 31m and Dubai DXB at 9h 06m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Larnaca, Paphos PFO is 105 km away by great circle and carries 52 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Almaty to Larnaca yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ALA to LCA in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The ALA airport entry
- The LCA airport entry
- Hand carry into Kazakhstan
- Hand carry into Cyprus
- The written lane, Almaty to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Almaty to Sharjah
- The written lane, Dubai to Almaty
- The route calculator
More pairs through ALA and LCA: Almaty to Istanbul, Almaty to Seoul, Almaty to Doha, Almaty to Delhi, Almaty to Abu Dhabi, Almaty to Baku, Zurich to Almaty, Almaty to Beijing.