AZAL purchases 6 airplanes

Azerbaijani Airlines will receive two Airbus-320 airplanes at 15.00
today, the head of the company’s press-service Magerram Safarali said,
Trend reports.

Safarali said that the company will have a total of six airplanes:
four Airbus-320s and two Airbus-319s. Two Airbus-320s will arrive
today, two more in January 2011 and the remaining Airbus-319s will
arrive in the first quarter of 2011.

Safarali said that the purchase was made using a credit. The planes
were produced in 2007.

Russian Tu-134 and Tu-154 planes will be replaced by the Airbus models
on the Baku-Nakhchyvan route.

The planes have an air life of 30,000 hours, allowing them to be used.
They have already travelled for over 6,000 hours.

They will be used on the Baku-Mineralniye Vody and other routes.
Airbus-319, Airbus-320 and Boeing-757 aircraft have started serving
the Baku-Nakhchyvan route.