Heydar Aliyev Airport is the largest air hub in Azerbaijan of international importance. It is named after the third president of this republic. The airport is the base for Azerbaijan Airlines.
Heydar Aliyev Airport: photos, description
This is the largest air gate of Azerbaijan. The airport is located 20 km north-east of the capital of the republic.
The first flights here began to be received and sent back in 1910, when the airport bore a different name - Bina. By 2000, the city had grown so much that there was a need to increase throughput. By 1999, a new terminal was built and commissioned, and in 2014 another terminal was built. In 2004, the airport began to bear the name of the third president of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev. Since the air hub is located in the mountains, where the level of seismic activity is high, the structural elements of buildings were carried out using special technologies that increase stability.
Heydar Aliyev Airport is a modern high-tech air hub, with a capacity of about 2 thousand passengers per hour. The airfield complex includes two asphalt runways, which allow receiving and sending all known types of airliners, including the “A380”, “An-225”.
Heydar Aliyev International Airport: infrastructure and terminals
The airport complex consists of two passenger and two cargo terminals. The first was built on the site of the old airport terminal, which was built back in the Soviet years. It has 4 floors and is made in the form of a triangle with a translucent roof. It uses the latest equipment for screening passenger luggage, ventilation, air conditioning, electricity and water, lighting, 12 telescopic rails, 2 of which are designed to service the world's largest airliner - the A380 airbus. In addition, there are duty-free shops in the international departures area. Near the terminal there is parking. Only international flights are served here.
The second terminal was built in Soviet times (in 1989) and currently only serves domestic flights.
Cargo terminals handle a cargo turnover of about 800 thousand tons per year.
Airlines and destinations
Heydar Aliyev Airport is the base for the national air carrier - Azerbaijan Airlines. The airline operates regular international flights to the following destinations:
- Belarus, Minsk;
- Great Britain, London;
- Germany Berlin;
- Georgia, Tbilisi;
- Israel - Tel Aviv;
- Iran - Tehran;
- Spain, Barcelona;
- Italy - Milan;
- Kazakhstan - Aktau;
- China - Beijing;
- UAE - Dubai;
- Russia - Kazan, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, St. Petersburg ;
- USA - New York;
- Turkey - Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Gazipasha, Dalaman, Izmir, Istanbul;
- Ukraine - Kiev, Lviv;
- France Paris;
- Czech Republic, Prague.
In addition, the airline operates domestic flights - Nakhichevan, Ganja. It serves flights of twenty foreign airlines, including 5 Russian (Aeroflot, NordStar, S7, Ural Airlines and UTair), which provide regular flights to the following destinations:
- Asia and the Middle East: Aktau, Almaty, Astana, Atyrau, Ashgabat, Baghdad, Doha, Dubai, Islamabal, Kabul, Najaf, Istanbul, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Urumqi, Sharm El Sheikh.
- Europe: Budapest, Kiev, Minsk, Riga, Odessa, Frankfurt.
- Russia: Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Norilsk, Samara, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa, Khanty-Mansiysk.
How to get there
Heydar Aliyev Airport is located at: Azerbaijan, Baku, postcode - AZ1044. Hot line phone: 994124972727, directorate: 994124972625, fax: 994124972604.
You can get to the airport via a modern expressway, which includes 12 lanes, both by private car, and by taxi or bus.
Heydar Aliyev Airport is a modern and high-tech air hub in Azerbaijan. It serves flights of 21 international airlines. The airport complex has a developed infrastructure and includes 4 terminals (2 - for passenger traffic, 2 - for freight). The quality of airport services was highly appreciated by the British consulting company SkyTrax, which assigned it 4 stars. The airport has a favorable location because it is located between Europe and Asia.