AZERBAIJAN AIRLINES

'Azerbaijan Airlines' ('AZAL', Azeri: Azərbaycan Hava Yolları) is the national airline of Azerbaijan based in Baku. It is the state-owned airline operating scheduled passenger and cargo services from Baku to the CIS, Europe, China and the Middle East, as well as domestic services. Its main base is Heydar Aliyev International Airport, Baku^[1].

Contents

History

Destinations

Fleet

Incidents and accidents

External links

References

History

The airline was established and started operations on 7 April 1992. It wholly owns subsidiary airline Azal Avia Cargo.

Destinations

Azerbaijan Airlines operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (at August 2007): ^[2]

=Central Asia

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★ Kazakstan

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★ Aqtau (Shevchenko Airport)

=East Asia

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★ People's Republic of China

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★ Ürümqi (Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport)

=Southwest Asia

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★ Afghanistan

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★ Kabul (Kabul International Airport)

★ Azerbaijan

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★ Baku (Heydar Aliyev International Airport) 'Hub'

★ Georgia

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★ Tbilisi (Tbilisi International Airport)

★ Iran

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★ Tehran (Imam Khomeini International Airport)

★ Israel

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★ Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion International Airport)

★ United Arab Emirates

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★ Dubai (Dubai International Airport)

=Europe

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★ Belarus

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★ Minsk (Minsk International Airport)

★ France

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★ Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)

★ Italy

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★ Milan (Malpensa International Airport)

★ Russia

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★ Mineralnye Vody (Mineralnye Vody Airport)

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★ Moscow (Domodedovo International Airport)

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★ Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod Strigino Airport)

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★ Saint Petersburg (Pulkovo Airport)

★ Turkey

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★ Ankara (Esenboğa International Airport)

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★ Antalya (Antalya International Airport)

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★ Istanbul (Atatürk International Airport)

★ Ukrain

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★ Kiev (Boryspil Airport)

★ United Kingdom

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★ London

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★ London Gatwick Airport

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★ London Heathrow Airport

Fleet

The Azerbaijan Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at September 2007) :

Type	Number	Notes
Airbus A319CJ	1
Airbus A319-100	3
Airbus A320-200	1
Antonov An-26B	1
Antonov An-140-100	1 on order
ATR 42-500	1
Boeing 727-200 Adv.	1
Boeing 757-200	4
Eurocopter AS 332L1 Super Puma	2	[3]
Eurocopter EC 155 B1	4	[3]
Tupolev Tu-134A	2
Tupolev Tu-134B	6
Tupolev Tu-154B	2
Tupolev Tu-154B-2	3
Tupolev Tu-154M	2
Yakovlev Yak-40	5

On order:

★ 1 ATR 42-500

★ 4 ATR 72-500^[5]

★ 2 Boeing 737-900^[6]

★ 3 Boeing 787

Incidents and accidents

On December 23, 2005 an Azerbaijan Airlines Antonov AN-140 plunged into the Caspian Sea about 20 miles north of the capital, Baku. All 18 passengers and five crew members died. The plane was on its way to Aktau. The airline has grounded its other remaining An-140 airplanes, and also postponed plans to purchase more of the type aircraft from the Ukraine.

External links

★ Azerbaijan Airlines

★ Azerbaijan Airlines Fleet

References

1. Flight International, Directory: World Airlines, p.83, 27 March 2007
2. Azerbaijan Airlines routemap, retrieved from their website August 3, 2007
3. Eurocopter Press Release - Azerbaijan Airlines Orders 6 Helicopters From Eurocopter
4. Eurocopter Press Release - Azerbaijan Airlines Orders 6 Helicopters From Eurocopter
5. "Azerbaijan Airlines first ATR 42-500 in a batch of six takes flight" Flight Global, 07/09/07
6. “Boeing and Azerbaijan Airlines Finalize Order for 787s and 737s”, SEATTLE, Feb. 23, 2007, at [1]; last accessed 13 May 2007.