LOT Polish Airlines announced the launch of its scheduled flights between Warsaw Chopin International Airport and Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.
The Polish airline will operate four flights a week, departing from Warsaw on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, thus opening a new connecting route between Europe and the Caucasus country, where it already has a presence in Yerevan, Armenia (3 flights a week), and Tbilisi, Georgia (10 flights a week).
On Tuesdays and Fridays flight LO721 will depart from Chopin airport at 11:00 PM to arrive in Baku at 5:10 the next day after 4 hours 10 minutes. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, the flight will depart at 20:45 from Warsaw, arriving in Baku at 2:55.
In the opposite direction, flight LO719 will take off from the Azerbaijani capital on Wednesdays and Fridays at 6:00. Arrival is scheduled in Warsaw at 8:30 after 4 hours 30 minutes. On Thursdays and Sundays, it will depart at 3:45, arriving at 6:15.
The flights will be operated by Boeing 737-800 aircraft with a capacity for 18 passengers in Business, 18 in Economy Plus, and 148 in Economy. This comes up to a total of 1,472 seats per week between Warsaw and Baku.
Azerbaijan market
With these flights, LOT will join the Europe – Azerbaijan market, which is mostly served by the local Azerbaijan Airlines with 45% of the seat offer (on 75 weekly flights). It will be followed by Turkish Airlines with 24% (on 45 weekly flights for the summer). And finally, a 20% distributed among Russian airlines. These ones remain deprived of offering connections to Western Europe after the invasion of Ukraine, even though the focus is the point-to-point with the former Soviet republic.
As for the rest of the Western airlines, for the summer AirBaltic has scheduled two weekly flights from Riga to Baku. Meanwhile, Lufthansa has four weekly flights from Frankfurt and Wizz Air two weekly flights from Budapest.
