AZAL stops scheduled flights to Aberdeen
Close JSC "Azerbaijan Airlines" will stop on October 28 regular passenger flights to Aberdeen city (UK). The closure of the flight is due to the airline plans to increase the number of flights in London's direction.
In the context of the current intergovernmental agreement between Azerbaijan and Great Britain, it is allowed to perform seven weekly flights from each side.
The flight Baku-Aberdeen-Baku operated from June 2011, on Tuesdays and Sundays. The cost of return ticket was about 700 manat.
Today the airline AZAL operates direct flights on the route Baku-London-Baku three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.) The cost for one-way ticket is 316 manat, for return ticket - 501 manat. --08B—
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