Flights to Baku can be redirected to alternate airports

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 8/ Trend E.Ismayilov / If weather conditions do not allow the Heydar Aliyev International Airport to accept planes, then they will be accepted by alternate airports, spokesman for Azerbaijan Railways Maharram Safarli told Trend on Wednesday. According to Safarli, earlier, Baku airport could not accept the Kazan-Baku flight implemented by Tatarstan Airlines. The plane was supposed to arrive in the capital at 10:50 local time, but due to the bad weather it landed in Makhachkala airport. The plane implementing the flight from London to Baku landed in Tehran. The flights from Tbilisi, Tehran, Ganja and the Nakhchivan night flight have been cancelled. Heavy snowstorm began in Baku early Wednesday morning. The Bureau of Hydro-meteorological Forecasts of the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry told Trend earlier, frosty weather will become severer during the day. On Feb. 8, the air temperature fell 3 - 5 degrees below zero in the noon hours, and is accompanied by heavy snowstorm. On the night of Feb. 8 the lowest air temperature in Baku is expected at 6-10 degrees below zero. It will snow in the Azerbaijani regions until early morning hours on Feb.9. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az