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
Economics
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Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR signed a memorandum of cooperation with North Macedonian company ECM on Thursday, during a visit to Baku by North Macedonia's President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, an informed source told Turan.
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Discussions were held in Baku within the framework of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, focusing on the "Decarbonization and Climate Adaptation of the Cotton-to-Clothing Value Chain." Among other topics, the state of cotton farming in Azerbaijan was also addressed.
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Azerbaijan has attracted significant interest from companies in both developing and developed countries, as well as from state and private sector representatives of at least 10 nations, regarding participation as shareholders in the Climate Finance Action Fund (CFAF), which has a total budget of $1 billion. The CFAF is one of Azerbaijan’s 14 key initiatives unveiled at COP29, Yalchin Rafiev, Azerbaijan's chief negotiator at COP29 and Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
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The Azerbaijani government has proposed that the OPEC Fund participate in financing several renewable energy projects, including offshore wind energy development, green energy corridor initiatives, and a 1 GW project planned by SOCAR in partnership with the UAE-based company Masdar.
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