Silk Way Airlines

Baku airport Int: . Heydar Aliyev International Airport

The Silk Way Airlines ( Silk Way. Engl for Silk Road ) is an Azerbaijani cargo airline. The airline was founded in 2001 and adopted on 6 October 2001 with regular and charter flights to operate on. It is native to the capital Baku Airport. Since April 2009 she is the first azerbaidschanische private airline by airplane to be certified according to quality standard ISO 9001. His clients include the last few years, the Bundeswehr, which can be transported by military Silk Way goods.

The end of 2011 acquired the Silkway Airlines cargo hangar at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

Destinations

Silk Way Airlines controls in 2013 following national and international destinations from Baku to: Aktau, Atyrau, Baghdad, Bishkek, Dubai, Frankfurt -Hahn, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kabul, Kandahar, Kuwait, London, Luxembourg, Milan -Malpensa, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai, Tbilisi, Urumqi

Fleet

As of August 2013 the fleet of Silk Way Airlines consists of 13 aircraft and ten helicopters:

• 01 Antonov An-12
• 03 Boeing 747- 400F
• 09 Ilyushin Il -76
• 10 Mil Mi -8
• 1 Boeing 747-82LF/SCD (cn 44444/1493 )

In addition, the subsidiary Silk Way West Airlines two Boeing 767 -300F operates.

Incidents

On July 6, 2011, an Ilyushin IL -76 crashed ( aircraft registration mark: 4K - AZ55 ) during a cargo flight from Baku (Azerbaijan ) to Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan) during the approach into a mountain and burned out. None of the nine crew members survived the crash.