GYD
Heydar Aliyev International Airport
Heydar Aliyev International Airport (IATA: GYD, ICAO: UBBB) is a large airport in Baku, Baku (city), Azerbaijan. It opened in 1933. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,000 m (13,123 ft). In 2020 it handled 1.0 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1933–19731933
OpenedHeydar Aliyev International Airport opens.
18 AUG 1973
DisasterAeroflot Flight 13.56 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap16/34167° / 347° · LIT
LENGTH4,000 m13,123 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt
17/35179° / 359° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
1970–2020653K
946K
1.2M
2.7M
2.9M
3.0M
3.0M
3.3M
4.1M
4.4M
4.7M
1.0M
707580121314151617181920
Routes
82 destinations · 40 countriesYear-round70
FZLFuzuli International AirportAzerbaijan · Azerbaijan Airlines262 km163 miSCOAktau International AirportKazakhstan · Azerbaijan Airlines, FlyArystan386 km240 miNAJNakhchivan International AirportAzerbaijan · Azerbaijan Airlines417 km259 miTBZTabriz International AirportIran · Azerbaijan Airlines, Iran Air419 km260 miTBSTbilisi International AirportGeorgia · Azerbaijan Airlines447 km278 miIKAImam Khomeini International AirportIran · Iran Airtour, Azerbaijan Airlines, Iran Air570 km354 miKSYKars AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines586 km364 miASFAstrakhan Narimanovo Boris M. Kustodiev International AirportRussia · Azimuth, Azerbaijan Airlines667 km414 miISUJalal Talabani International AirportIraq · Iraqi Airways686 km426 miEBLErbil International AirportIraq · FlyErbil710 km441 miBUSAlexander Kartveli Batumi International AirportGeorgia · Azerbaijan Airlines720 km447 miGUWAtyrau International AirportKazakhstan · Azerbaijan Airlines, Air Astana753 km468 miTZXTrabzon International AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines866 km538 miUGCUrgench International AirportUzbekistan · Azerbaijan Airlines896 km557 miBGWBaghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseIraq · Fly Baghdad, Azerbaijan Airlines954 km593 miAKXAktobe International AirportKazakhstan · Azerbaijan Airlines1,221 km759 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · Kuwait Airways1,265 km786 miRENOrenburg Central AirportRussia · IrAero1,325 km823 miSKDSamarkand International AirportUzbekistan · Azerbaijan Airlines1,441 km895 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet1,445 km898 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · Azerbaijan Airlines1,557 km967 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Azerbaijan Airlines, Gulf Air1,581 km982 miTASTashkent International AirportUzbekistan · Centrum Air, FlyOne, Azerbaijan Airlines +11,616 km1,004 miDYUDushanbe International AirportTajikistan · Azerbaijan Airlines1,622 km1,008 miCITShymkent International AirportKazakhstan · Azerbaijan Airlines1,630 km1,013 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Azerbaijan Airlines, Arkia1,650 km1,025 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, Azerbaijan Airlines, AJet1,714 km1,065 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines, AJet1,745 km1,084 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Azerbaijan Airlines1,753 km1,089 miSHJSharjah International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia1,759 km1,093 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Azerbaijan Airlines1,763 km1,095 miISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines, Turkish Airlines1,790 km1,112 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Air Arabia1,833 km1,139 miRMOChişinău International AirportMoldova · Azerbaijan Airlines1,836 km1,141 miZIAZhukovsky International AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines1,890 km1,174 miSVXKoltsovo AirportRussia · Red Wings Airlines1,969 km1,223 miADBAdnan Menderes International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines1,977 km1,228 miPEEPerm International AirportRussia · IrAero1,985 km1,233 miSSHSharm El Sheikh International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo, Azerbaijan Airlines1,995 km1,240 miNQZNursultan Nazarbayev International AirportKazakhstan · Azerbaijan Airlines2,022 km1,256 miBSZManas International AirportKyrgyzstan · Azerbaijan Airlines2,039 km1,267 miISBIslamabad International AirportPakistan · Azerbaijan Airlines2,156 km1,340 miMSQMinsk National AirportBelarus · Azerbaijan Airlines2,218 km1,378 miALAAlmaty International AirportKazakhstan · Azerbaijan Airlines, Air Astana2,246 km1,396 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Azerbaijan Airlines2,328 km1,447 miLHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · airblue, Azerbaijan Airlines2,396 km1,489 miBEGBelgrade Nikola Tesla AirportSerbia · Air Serbia2,466 km1,532 miWAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines2,559 km1,590 miBUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · Wizz Air2,564 km1,593 miBTSM. R. Štefánik AirportSlovakia · Wizz Air2,725 km1,693 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Azerbaijan Airlines2,772 km1,722 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · IndiGo, Azerbaijan Airlines2,794 km1,736 miOVBNovosibirsk Tolmachevo AirportRussia · S7 Airlines2,883 km1,791 miNJCNizhnevartovsk AirportRussia · IrAero2,900 km1,802 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Azerbaijan Airlines2,963 km1,841 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Azerbaijan Airlines3,055 km1,898 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines3,080 km1,914 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · Wizz Air3,143 km1,953 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Azerbaijan Airlines3,221 km2,001 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa3,368 km2,093 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Azerbaijan Airlines3,368 km2,093 miGVAGeneva International AirportSwitzerland · Azerbaijan Airlines3,563 km2,214 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Azerbaijan Airlines3,659 km2,274 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Azerbaijan Airlines3,803 km2,363 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Azerbaijan Airlines3,981 km2,474 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · Azerbaijan Airlines3,985 km2,476 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Azerbaijan Airlines4,002 km2,487 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Azerbaijan Airlines4,669 km2,901 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Azerbaijan Airlines5,503 km3,419 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · China Southern Airlines6,128 km3,808 miSeasonal12
COVÇukurova International AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines1,358 km844 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines1,714 km1,065 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas1,753 km1,089 miCEKKurchatov Chelyabinsk International AirportRussia · IrAero1,852 km1,151 miDLMDalaman International AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines1,889 km1,174 miBJVMilas Bodrum International AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines1,966 km1,222 miADBAdnan Menderes International AirportTürkiye · Azerbaijan Airlines, AJet1,977 km1,228 miMCTMuscat International AirportOman · SalamAir2,028 km1,260 miHERHeraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis AirportGreece · Azerbaijan Airlines2,247 km1,396 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines2,259 km1,404 miJEDKing Abdulaziz International AirportSaudi Arabia · Flynas, flyadeal2,328 km1,447 miTIVTivat AirportMontenegro · Azerbaijan Airlines2,605 km1,619 miMost destinationsAzerbaijan Airlines 55IrAero 4Pegasus Airlines 4AJet 4Wizz Air 3Iran Air 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GYD. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Heydar Aliyev International Airport” (revision of 25 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
6 channelsAPPBAKU APP129.300
ATISBAKU ATIS126.800
GCABAKU PRECISION119.200
GNDBAKU GND121.700
RDRBAKU RADAR120.800
TWRBAKU TWR119.200