What are the main airports in Azerbaijan?

Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD), Nakhchivan International Airport (NAJ), Ganja International Airport (GNJ) and Lankaran International Airport (LLK), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.

Which is the busiest airport in Azerbaijan?

Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD), with 4.7 million passengers (Wikidata, 2019).

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Airports in Azerbaijan

6 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.

Azerbaijan has 6 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 3 of them large. The busiest are Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD, 4.7 million passengers, Wikidata, 2019), Nakhchivan International Airport (NAJ, 646,000 passengers, Wikidata, 2019) and Ganja International Airport (GNJ, 154,000 passengers, Wikidata, 2019).

Code	Airport	Serves	Passengers / year	Routes
GYD	Heydar Aliyev International Airport	Baku	4,730,000	9
NAJ	Nakhchivan International Airport	Nakhchivan	646,000	—
GNJ	Ganja International Airport	Ganja	154,000	—
LLK	Lankaran International Airport	Lankaran	18,000	—
GBB	Gabala International Airport	Gabala	—	—
LHL	Lachin International Airport	Lachin	—	—

Busiest routes

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
GYD – IST	Istanbul, Turkey	1,795 km	740,533
GYD – SAW	Istanbul, Turkey	1,750 km	440,372
ESB – GYD	Ankara, Turkey	1,448 km	197,207
ADB – GYD	İzmir, Turkey	1,982 km	136,858
AYT – GYD	Antalya, Turkey	1,718 km	135,328
DEL – GYD	New Delhi, India	2,797 km	114,750
GYD – TZX	Trabzon, Turkey	868 km	34,462
BOM – GYD	Mumbai, India	3,218 km	21,905
BJV – GYD	Bodrum, Turkey	1,970 km	20,922

Questions

Azerbaijan has 6 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 3 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.