Baku Airport Handles 3,000,000 Passengers

The Heydar Aliyev International Airport served over 231 thousand passengers in November, which is 23% more than the same period last year, according to its press office.

Total in the 11 months of 2016 the Baku airport handled almost three million passengers. Jets of the national airline Azerbaijan Airlines carried 1.8 million passengers over the period. On domestic flights (Baku-Nakhchivan, Baku-Ganja and Nakhchivan-Ganja) 500,000 people were transported. This represents 16% of total passenger traffic, or 27% of the volume of AZAL traffic.

During the same period, 14,500 tons of cargo was transported through cargo terminals.

The most popular international destinations from Baku are Istanbul, Moscow, Dubai and Kiev. In the first 11 months of 2016, 1.38 million passengers flew in these directions.

Note that in 2016 Iraqi Airways, Fly Baghdad, ATA Airlines, Air Cairo, Mahan Air, Komaviatrans and the Russian low cost company Pobeda began to fly to Baku in 2016.

The new terminal of the Heydar Aliyev International Airport (Terminal 1) was put into operation in April 2014. -----08D

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