Almost 900 thousand passengers have been in total for Azerbaijan’s international airports since the beginning of the year. This is almost twice as much as the same period of 2021. Haqqin.az reported this in the press service of the International Airport Heydar Aliyev.
In April 2022, 247.5 thousand people accounted for, of which 197 thousand were passengers who flew out of the capital’s airport or flew to it.
The basic air carriers of the Baku airport – AZAL and Buta Airways – transported 350 and 114 thousand passengers, respectively, which is in total 51% of the total share of the served passengers.
In April 2022, 23 foreign airlines made regular flights to the Baku airport. The reduction in the number of air carriers is associated with the suspension of flights by Russian airlines in Azerbaijan, the press service noted.
The ten most popular areas from Baku in April included Istanbul, Moscow, Dubai, Tbilisi, Minsk, Ankara, Izmir, Frankfurt, Abu Dhabi and Aktau.
International Airport Heydar Aliyev (Iata: Gyd) – the largest airport in Azerbaijan and the region in terms of passenger and freight transportation, runways, the area of the airport complex and the power of the cargo complex. In 2021, the Heydar Aliyev International Airport received a 5-star rating for epidemiological security during the Covid-19 pandemic for airports from the SkyTrax International Rating Agency. This is the highest recognition of the effectiveness of the COVID-19 measures introduced at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport to protect their passengers and employees from coronavirus distribution.