Azerbaijan Airlines
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| Azerbaijan Airlines | ||
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| IATA J2 |
ICAO AHY |
Callsign AZAL |
| Founded | April 7, 1992 | |
| Hubs | Heydar Aliyev International Airport | |
| Frequent flyer program | AZAL Miles | |
| Fleet size | 35 | |
| Destinations | 23 | |
| Headquarters | Baku | |
| Key people | Jakhangir Askerov | |
| Website: http://www.azal.az | ||
Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL, Azeri: Azərbaycan Hava Yolları) is an airline based in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is the state-owned national airline operating scheduled passenger and cargo services from Baku to the CIS, Europe, China and the Middle East. Its main base is Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD). The airline was established and started operations on 7 April 1992. It has a 100% holding in subsidiary airline AZAL Avia Cargo and has 4280 employees.
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[edit] Services
Azerbaijan Airlines operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (at September 2006).
[edit] Asia
[edit] Central
[edit] East
[edit] South
[edit] Southwest
[edit] Europe
[edit] Fleet
The Azerbaijan Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) [1]:
- 3 Airbus A319-100
- 1 Airbus A319-100CJ
- 1 Airbus A320-200
- 2 Boeing 727-200
- 4 Boeing 757-200
- 3 Antonov An-26
- 2 Antonov An-140 (plus 1 on order)
- 1 Ilyushin Il-76M
- 2 Tupolev Tu-134A
- 7 Tupolev Tu-134B
- 8 Tupolev Tu-154B
- 2 Tupolev Tu-154M
- 12 Yakovlev Yak-40
[edit] Accidents
On December 23, 2005 an Azerbaijani Airlines An-140 plunged onto the Caspian Sea shore about 20 miles north of the capital, Baku. All 18 passengers and five crewmembers died. The plane was on its way to Aktau. The airliner has grounded its other remaining An-140 airplane, and also postponed plans to purchase more of the type aircraft from the Ukraine.
[edit] References
- ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
[edit] External links
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