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WizzAir to resume flights to Baku next year

30 October 2014 [20:15] - TODAY.AZ

/AzerNews/

By Amina Nazarli

Hungarian Wizz Air airline will not offer flight services on the Budapest-Baku-Budapest route during winter.

AZAL Spokesman Maharram Safarli said on October 30 that the company will resume the flights from March 29, 2015 to October 24, 2015.

As Deputy Head of Azerbaijani Airlines AZAL Sabir Ilyasov said earlier Hungarian Wizz Air airline will continue to carry out flights on the Budapest-Baku-Budapest route in accordance with an intergovernmental agreement on air service.

The memorandum is valid until October 26 and from this date on, the flights along this route will be conducted in accordance with an intergovernmental agreement to be signed between the two counties.

Airbus aircrafts of Hungarian airline currently fly from Budapest to Baku on Mondays and Fridays and from Baku to Budapest on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

The first Baku-Budapest direct flight opened on June 2013. Budapest, one of Europe's most beautiful cities, which attracts many Azerbaijani tourists.

As of January 2014, the passenger traffic exceeded 14,000 people on Budapest-Budapest-Baku route within six months. This year, the company plans to increase passenger traffic up to 26,000 people.

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