Azerbaijan’s international airports serve some 4.5 million people in late ten months

Azerbaijan's international airports served 507,000 passengers in October 2022, and cumulatively this figure exceeded 4.4 million people during the 10 months of 2022.

The press service of Heydar Aliyev International Airport informed Caliber.Az that the airport served 429.000 passengers, of which 370.000 were international flights.

AZAL and Buta Airways in October served 105.000 and 58.000 passengers on international flights respectively, which is 38 per cent of the total international traffic.

In October, some 27 foreign airlines operated regular flights to Heydar Aliyev International Airport. Turkish Airlines, Aeroflot, Utair, FlyDubai, and WizzAir carried the largest number of passengers, not counting AZAL and Buta Airways.

The top ten most popular international destinations from Baku in October 2022 include Istanbul, Moscow, Dubai, Tbilisi, Abu Dhabi, Ankara, Tashkent, Jeddah, Tel Aviv, and Sharjah. A total of 252,000 people were served on these routes.

Heydar Aliyev International Airport (IATA: GYD) is the largest airport in Azerbaijan and the region in terms of the volume of passenger and cargo traffic, take-off and landing operations, the area of the airport complex, as well as the capacity of the cargo complex.

In June 2022, Heydar Aliyev International Airport confirmed its status as the best airport in CIS countries for the fifth time in a row according to the international agency Skytrax World Airport Awards. This award is the benchmark for airports in the industry.

Skytrax has awarded the highest rating of "5 stars" to Baku airport, as well as the highest rating for epidemiological safety during the pandemic COVID-19.