The largest passenger aircraft of “Azerbaijan Airlines”, Airbus A340-500, successfully completed its first technical flight on September 9 and landed on the new runway at Zangilan International Airport, the first airport in East Zangezur.
The flight time on the Baku-Zangilan route on a passenger plane was about 45 minutes.
The new airport in Zangilan has been assigned international ICAO and IATA codes (UBBZ and ZZE respectively) and has received all EUROCONTROL navaid call signs.
It should be noted that the length and width of the runway at the Zangilan airport are 3,000 meters and 60 meters, respectively. The airfield is fully equipped with instrumental landing and navigation systems, lighting systems, primary and secondary radar station to ensure flight safety in accordance with all ICAO requirements. The platform area is 60 thousand square meters.
The airport in Zangilan is fully equipped with all necessary air navigation equipment. It completed the construction of an ATC tower equipped with an automated air traffic control system.
