Air Freight: Azerbaijan has a modern aviation infrastructure in place, sufficient to meet its demands for transit of cargoes. Most of the air freight moves through the Baku International Airport (IATA Code GYD). But there are 4 other international airports in the country viz. Ganja, Nakhichevan, Lenkaran and Gabala. Besides, Azerbaijan airlines the national flag carrier (IATA Code J2), Baku is catered to by many International airlines both passenger and cargo, prominent among them are – Lufthansa, British airways, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Aeroflot, Air Ukraine, Uzbekistan airways, Air Astana, China Southern Airlines, Austrian Airlines, etc. (full list is given here under).
Airlines currently operating to Baku International airport with scheduled services (courtesy www.centreforaviation.com) are:
- Aeroflot
- Air Astana
- AK Bars Aero
- Austrian Airlines
- Azerbaijan Airlines AZAL
- Belavia
- British Airways
- Cargolux Airlines International
- China Southern Airlines
- flydubai
- Grozny Avia
- IrAero
- Iran Air
- Lufthansa
- Malaysia Airlines
- NordStar Airlines
- Qatar Airways
- Rossiya – Russian Airlines
- S7 Airlines
- SCAT Airlines
- Silk Way Airlines
- Tajik Air
- Tatarstan
- Turkish Airlines
- Ukraine International
- UTair Aviation
- Utair Ukraine
- Uzbekistan Airways
- VIM Airlines
- Wizz Air
- Aerosvit Airlines
- Air France
- Alitalia
- CSA Czech Airlines
- EgyptAir
- Pegasus Airlines
- United Airlines
- Ural Airlines
Azerbaijan is strategically located on the North-South & East-West corridors and hence has a potential to become a regional transit hub. The Government of Azerbaijan has taken tremendous developmental steps in this direction, prominent among them are modernizing the Baku airport to increase its passenger & cargo capacity substantially and secondly the creation of the Baku Logistics Center to efficiently handle import, export and transit cargoes.
Baku airport could be the ideal choice for transiting export cargoes from Afghanistan by air and cross-stuffed into containers for oncarriage to worldwide destinations by sea via Poti.
