Heydar Aliyev International Airport in October this year served 265 thousand passengers, which is 19% more than the same period last year..
In the first ten months of 2016 the Baku airport handled more than 2.7 million passengers. Preference is given to the national air carrier of Azerbaijan - 1.7 million passengers. Of those domestic flights with Azerbaijan Airlines involved 468 thousand people transported to Nakhchivan and Ganja. This represents 17% of total passenger traffic, or 27% of the traffic volume of AZAL. Turan was told in the press service of the Heydar Aliyev International Airport
The most popular international destinations are Istanbul, Moscow, Dubai and Kiev. In the 10 months they accounted for 45% of the total number of passengers traveling abroad.
In 2016, flights started with Iraqi Airways, Fly Baghdad, ATA Airlines, Air Cairo, Mahan Air, Komaviatrans and the Russian low cost company Pobeda, which began to operate on 30 October.
The new airport terminal of the Heydar Aliyev International Airport (Terminal 1) was commissioned in April 2014. Its total area is 65 thousand sq. m. ------08D
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