The Northern Capital Gateway Company, which manages Pulkovo Airport, announces the restoration of flights of the national carrier AZAL from St. Petersburg to the capital of Azerbaijan.

From June 16, the carrier will start flying between St. Petersburg and Baku twice a week: on Thursdays and Sundays on comfortable Airbus A320 aircraft. This is the airline's first flight to the destination since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

According to the schedule, departure from Baku is scheduled for 19:00, arrival at Pulkovo airport at 22:10. The plane departs from St. Petersburg at 23:10 and arrives in the capital of Azerbaijan at 03:45. The time for each airport is local.

Thanks to its route network, the airline offers convenient connections and transfers. On AZAL flights, passengers can fly to Tbilisi, Aktau, Dubai, Istanbul, Tashkent, Tehran and other cities.

You can book tickets on the airline 's website , online aggregators and at ticket offices.

Baku is one of the most popular destinations in the CIS countries. At the end of 2019, the passenger traffic between St. Petersburg and the capital of Azerbaijan amounted to 50 thousand passengers (over 70.5 thousand passengers were served on flights to Azerbaijan this year).