Azerbaijan's international airports see increase in passenger traffic

The total passenger traffic of Azerbaijan's international airports has reached 1.53 million people since the beginning of 2022, more than twice as much as last year.

The press service of the Heydar Aliyev International Airport told Caliber.Az that in May 2022 the international airports of the country served 396,000 people, of which 315,000 were passengers who departed from the capital's airport or arrived at it.

The main airlines of Baku Airport - AZAL and Buta Airways have carried 455 and 154.000 passengers respectively. Of these, 341.5 thousand are passengers of international flights, which amounts to 36% of the total international traffic.

In May 2022, 24 foreign airlines made regular flights to Baku Airport. Also this month, LOT Airlines opened direct flights from Warsaw to Baku.

The top ten most popular international destinations from Baku in May included Istanbul, Dubai, Moscow, Tbilisi, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Minsk, Ankara, Izmir, and Kuwait.

Heydar Aliyev International Airport (IATA: GYD) is the largest airport in Azerbaijan and the region in the volume of passenger and cargo traffic, takeoff and landing operations, airfield area, and cargo complex capacity.

In 2021 Heydar Aliyev International Airport has received a 5-star rating on epidemiological safety during the pandemic COVID-19 for the airports from Skytrax International Air Transport Rating Agency.

This is the highest recognition of the effectiveness of COVID-19 measures introduced at Heydar Aliyev International Airport to protect its passengers and employees from the spread of the coronavirus.