Heydar Aliyev Airport listed among world’s best terminals

HBusiness Insider has published a list of world’s 14 most beautiful airports, in which the Baku-based Heydar Aliyev International Airport is also listed.

The list also includes Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Vancouver International Airport, Singapore Changi Airport, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Munich Airport, Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, Hamad International Airport, Dubai International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport , Marrakesh Menara Airport , Incheon International Airport and Haneda Airport.

The Heydar Aliyev International Airport, a modern airport only 20-minute drive from the center of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, offers full comfort for arriving and departing passengers. In 2016, the Airport, which provides many flights take-off and land every day, served a record number of passengers in Azerbaijan's civil aviation history.

The airport served 4.06 million passengers, in 2017. This indicator grew by more than 23 percent compared to the same period last year and exceeded the total statistics for the entire 2016 year.

In 2017 a total of 55 airlines carried out regular and charter flights. Heydar Aliyev International Airport welcomed eight new air carriers - Air Arabia, Wataniya Airways, ISR Air, Mahan Air, Jazeera Airways, IrAero, Ikar (PegasFly brand) and Azerbaijan’s first low-cost airline Buta Airways.

During this period Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) carried 2.2 million passengers, while Buta Airways – 92,000 passengers. At the same time, 114,000 passengers were registered on transit flights, while 50,000 passengers - on charter flights.

85 percent of passengers were carried by international flights. 46 percent of the total international traffic of the airport accounted for Azerbaijan Airlines and Buta Airways, 54 percent - foreign air carriers.

Top ten most popular international destinations included Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Kiev, Tehran, Antalya, Tbilisi, Baghdad, Doha and St. Petersburg. 2.52 million passengers traveled to these destinations.

Heydar Aliyev International Airport was awarded the category of “4 stars” by the Skytrax, which is influential British consulting company specializing in the study of the quality of services provided by various airlines and airports worldwide.

Last year, the airport was named the best airport among airports of Russia and CIS countries for the level of the provided services, being awarded the prestigious Skytrax World Airport Awards.