Simferopol Lands New Baku Link

Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) is to introduce a twice weekly service from its Heydar Aliyev International Airport base in Baku to the Ukrainian city of Simferopol. The flight will be operated by a 70-seat ATR 72 turboprop and is scheduled to launch on May 16. This is AZAL’s second destination in Ukraine as it already offers four flights per week to Kiev.

Around 71,000 O&D passengers travelled between Azerbaijan and Ukraine last year, but this will be the first link from Simferopol into the CIS republic. The Ukrainian city, capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in southern Ukraine, is attempting to attract additional business and leisure visitors, particularly thanks to its sites of historical and archaeological significance.

Simferopol is already linked to many capitals cities, including Moscow, Tashkent and Yerevan, while a link to Istanbul provides its only service outside of the region. In the last year around 870,000 O&D passengers flew into and out of the city, with 41.5 per cent of these travelling to Moscow (using Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo) and 23.6 per cent domestically to Kiev.

Schedule:

J2049 GYD0940 – 1055SIP AT7 14
J2050 SIP1210 – 1730GYD AT7 14

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.