Heydar Aliyev International Airport

Heydar Aliyev International Airport (Azerbaijani: Heydar Aliyev adına Beynəlxalq Hava Limanı) (IATA: GYD, ICAO: UBBB) is one of the seven international airports serving Azerbaijan. Formerly, it was called Bina International Airport after a suburb of Baku. On 10 March 2004, the airport was renamed after president Heydar Aliyev. The airport is 20 kilometers northeast of Azerbaijan capital Baku, connected to the city by a highway. The airport serves as the hub for national carriers Azerbaijan Airlines and Buta Airways.

Heydar Aliyev International Airport Heydər Əliyev adına Beynəlxalq Hava Limanı
IATA: GYD ICAO: UBBB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Azerbaijan
Operator	Azerbaijan Airlines
Serves	Baku
Location	Baku, Azerbaijan
Opened	1933^[1]
Hub for	Azerbaijan Airlines Azal Avia Cargo Buta Airways Silk Way West Airlines
Elevation AMSL	3 m / 10 ft
Coordinates	40°28′03″N 050°02′48″E / 40.46750°N 50.04667°E / 40.46750; 50.04667
Website	airport.az
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 16/34 3,995^[2] 13,107 Asphalt/concrete 17/35 3,200 10,499 Asphalt/concrete
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 4,730,000 Passenger change 7.0%
Source: [1] www.airportbaku.com, Azerbaijanian AIP at EUROCONTROL^[3] ACI's 2014 World Airport Traffic Report

Facilities

Terminals

The airport consists of two passenger terminals, Terminal 1 being the newer one, and two cargo terminals.

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 was commissioned in April 2014. Its total area is 65,000 square meters. The terminal is designed for 6 million passengers per year. It currently serves up to 3 million passengers annually. The total parking area is 20,000 square meters for 600 vehicles.^{[citation needed]} The airport has a wide range of shops, restaurants, cafés, and duty-free stores in both the departures and arrivals areas. Terminal 1 contains five lounges and a spa.^[4] Terminal 1 operates jet bridges capable of receiving 12 aircraft simultaneously. Two jet bridges are intended for accommodating the world's largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380.

Terminal 1’s four-level engineering concept was developed in 2010 by Arup Group with a tricorn shape and semi-transparent roof. The interior, designed by Turkish company AUTOBAN, has a series of oak-veneer “cocoons”.^{[citation needed]} There is Vanderlande baggage handling system in Terminal 1, as well as L-3 equipment for thorough baggage inspection and scanners designed to obtain a layered image of the internal structure of the object.^{[citation needed]} 30 Schindler escalators and 21 elevators are installed in Terminal 1. Terminal 1 is equipped with a Building Management System (BMS) which is designed to automate processes and operations that are implemented in modern buildings and is the technical basis of the so-called intelligent buildings. Also, Terminal 1 is equipped with a separate system of resource support, such as electricity, lighting, ventilation, heating, air conditioning, water supply, and sewerage.^{[citation needed]}

Terminal 2

Architect Viktor Denisov is the author of the project of Terminal 2, which currently serves both domestic flights (South entrance) and international flights of low-cost airlines (North entrance). The project was awarded the first prize in a competition in 1981 and was implemented in 1989.

Cargo

The cargo terminal was opened on March 23, 2005. Terminal building houses companies such as Silk Way Airlines, Imair Air Company, Euroasian Air Services, Lufthansa Cargo and Panalpina. The terminal claims to be able to serve nine Boeing 747, Antonov An-124 or fifteen Ilyushin Il-76-type aircraft simultaneously.^[5]

Runways

The airport has two runways; Runway 16/34 is 3,995 by 60 m (13,107 by 197 ft), runway 17/35 is 3,200 by 45 m (10,499 by 148 ft).^[6]

Hotels

Sheraton Baku Airport Hotel with 205 rooms is located on the territory of Heydar Aliyev International Airport.

Passengers with children

International Terminal provides a baby care room, play area as well as diaper changing tables.

Services for passengers with reduced mobility

The airport provides personal assistance to passengers with disabilities, special parking spaces, information desks and check-in counters, 24/7 medical centre service, if necessary, and ambulifts for pickup on board aircraft. Airport staff will escort registered passengers to the lounge and then to the boarding gate.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens (resumes 22 May 2023)^[7]
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia	Sharjah
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi^[8]
Air Astana	Almaty, Astana (suspended)^[9]
Air Cairo	Sharm El Sheikh
Air Moldova	Chișinău (begins 28 March 2023)^[10]
airBaltic	Riga (begins 17 May 2023)^[11]
AnadoluJet	Ankara,^[12]^[13] Antalya,^[14] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen^[15]
Arkia	Seasonal: Tel Aviv^[16]
Azerbaijan Airlines	Almaty,^[17] Ankara, Astana (begins 16 March 2023),^[18] Beijing–Capital, Berlin, Delhi,^[19] Dubai–International, Ganja, Istanbul, Kyiv–Boryspil (suspended), London–Heathrow, Milan–Malpensa, Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Vnukovo, Mumbai,^[20] Nakhchivan, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Qabala, Saint Petersburg, Samarkand,^[21] Tashkent,^[22] Tbilisi,^[23] Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Urgench (begins 28 January 2023) Seasonal: Antalya, Bahrain, Bodrum, Dalaman, Izmir, Kuwait City,^[24] Lviv (suspended), Sharm El Sheikh^[25] Charter: Xi'an^[26] Seasonal charter: Cairo,^[27] Dammam,^[28] Gassim, Hofuf,^[28] Jeddah, Riyadh,^[28] Qassim^[28]
Azimuth	Astrakhan, Mineralnye Vody, Rostov-on-Don,^[29] Sochi
Belavia	Minsk
Buta Airways	Ankara, Astrakhan,^[30] Bahrain,^[31] Dammam,^[32]^[33] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kazan, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Vnukovo, Riyadh,^[32] Saint Petersburg, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Ufa Seasonal: Batumi,^[34] Gazipaşa, Sofia
China Southern Airlines	Ürümqi
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi
FlyArystan	Aktau
flydubai	Dubai–International
flynas	Seasonal: Dammam, Jeddah,^[35] Riyadh^[36]
Gulf Air	Bahrain^[37]
IrAero	Chelyabinsk,^[38] Novosibirsk, Orenburg,^[39] Rostov-on-Don,^[40] Samara Seasonal: Yekaterinburg^[41]
Iran Air	Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Iraqi Airways	Baghdad, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah^[42]
Israir	Tel Aviv
Jazeera Airways	Kuwait City
Kuwait Airways	Kuwait City^[43]
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
NordStar	Norilsk, Ufa
Nordwind Airlines	Kazan, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg,^[44] Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Vladikavkaz
Pakistan International Airlines	Islamabad,^[45] Karachi,^[46] Lahore^[47]
Pegasus Airlines	Ankara,^[48] Gazipaşa, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir^[49]
Qatar Airways	Doha
S7 Airlines	Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
Salam Air	Seasonal: Muscat^[50]
SCAT Airlines	Aktau Seasonal charter: Sharm El Sheikh^[51]
SkyUp	Lviv (suspended)
Smartavia	Saint Petersburg^[52]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul Seasonal: Antalya^[53]
Ukraine International Airlines	Kyiv–Boryspil (suspended)
Ural Airlines	Kaluga, Krasnoyarsk–International, Mineralnye Vody, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Samara, Yekaterinburg
Utair	Moscow–Vnukovo, Surgut
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent
Wizz Air	Abu Dhabi,^[54] Budapest, Rome–Fiumicino (begins 1 June 2023)^[55]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Nippon Cargo Airlines^[56]	Tokyo–Narita
Silk Way West Airlines^[57]	Aktau, Amsterdam, Atyrau, Baghdad, Bagram, Bishkek, Chicago–O'Hare,^[58] Dallas/Fort Worth, Dhaka, Djibouti City, Dubai–Al Maktoum, Dubai–International, Hahn, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Jakarta Soekarno-hatta, Kabul (suspended), Kandahar, Kuwait City, Kuala Lumpur–International, London–Stansted, Luxembourg, Maastricht/Aachen, Milan–Malpensa, Moscow–Sheremetyevo,Mumbai, New York–JFK, Oslo,^[59] Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Singapore, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tokyo–Narita,^[60] Ürümqi

Statistics

 

Exterior of Terminal 1

 

Interior of Terminal 1

 

Site map of Baku Airport

Annual passenger traffic at GYD airport. See Wikidata query.

Traffic by calendar year, official statistics

	Passengers
2016^[61]	3,260,000
2017^[62]	4,060,000
2018^[63]	4,430,000
2019^[64]	4,730,000

Transport

Bus and taxi

BakuBus H1 buses run 24 hours a day from 28 May Metro Station to Baku Airport. The traffic interval is 30 minutes in the afternoon and hourly at night. The airport is reached from Baku (and back) by private taxi in about 20 minutes.

Baku International Airpot will eventually be linked by the Baku suburban railway.

Transport and parking

The airport can be reached by car from the capital either on the airport highway via Heydar Aliyev Avenue, or on Zikh highway via Nobel Avenue. Parking is available in lots at each terminal, with a total capacity of 1,600 vehicles.

See also

• List of airports in Azerbaijan
• List of the busiest airports in the former USSR
• Transportation in Azerbaijan

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External links

  Media related to Heydar Aliyev International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Heydar Aliyev International Airport official website
• Current weather for UBBB at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for GYD at Aviation Safety Network
• Heydar Aliyev International Airport Renovation Project