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Baku Airport Considered One of the Region’s Best

By Mushvig Mehdiyev March 15, 2017

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Baku International Airport receives World Airports Award, Amsterdanm, the Netherlands, March 14

Skytrax World Airport Awards has ranked Baku’s Heydar Aliyev International Airport amongst the top 10 airports within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region.

In a ceremony held in Amsterdam on Tuesday, an official representative from Baku received the award from Skytrax officials.

The World Airport Awards are the most prestigious in the airport industry, voted by customers in the world’s largest airport customer satisfaction survey.

The 2017 awards were based on 13.82 million airport survey questionnaires completed by airline passengers from 105 different countries. The survey, which ran from July 2016 – February of this year and covered 550 airports worldwide, measured traveler experience across airport service and product key performance indicators – from check-in, arrival, transfers, shopping, security and immigration, to departures from flight gates.

Baku’s airport also received the internationally recognized 4-Star Airport rating from Skytrax, which recognizes airports that perform well across the areas of product facilities and front-line staff service. Only 37 airports throughout the world have received the 4-star rating.

The 2017 Best CIS Airports top 10 list is as follows:

1.    Moscow, Domodedovo
2.    Moscow, Sheremetyevo
3.    Kazan
4.    Yekaterinburg
5.    Baku
6.    Moscow, Vnukovo
7.    Almaty
8.    Astana
9.    Minsk
10.  St. Petersburg