Azerbaijan, Baku, April 18 / Trend A. Taghiyeva /
The Turkish company for Anatalya tourism and infrastructure development Gatab is offering new regular direct flights Baku-Antalya to attract a larger number of Azerbaijani tourists, Turkish newspaper AirNewsTimes reported today referring to the company head Yusuf Uras.
According to the newspaper, Gatab has already started working on this project and is negotiating with advisor to the Turkish embassy in Azerbaijan Seyit Ahmet Arslan.
Uras also stressed that the major airlines have shown interest in this project implementation.
"About 600,000 Azerbaijani tourists visited Turkey in 2011," he said. "By opening a direct flight from Baku-Antalya, we will increase this number to one million a year."
Azerbaijan Airlines told Trend earlier that the company will make direct flights to Baku-Antalya-Baku from May 27 to September 30. The aircraft will leave the capital every day, except Wednesday at 11:10 local time. The minimum cost of a return ticket is 497 manat.
The official exchange rate is 0.7860 AZN/USD on April 18.