Originally posted by dmussen:
Spoke yesterday to a young English lady passenger. Apart from general terror and a swift descent she complimented the crew given mountainous terrain and a calm fix for the problem. It was explained that Azer. was the "way to go" given a potentially hostile reaction from the folk to the south. The runway in use was 800 m. short for a 380 and the time spent on the ground was OK except for the mum's with babes in arms who had a hard time.
Baku has 2 non-intersecting which are slightly offset. The longest runway is runway 16/34 and is 4000m long and is CAT III equipped, plenty of stopping distance for an A380 even above MLW me thinks.
We regularly land on the shorter 18/36 (3200m and 3065m resp.) and even at MLW this is no problem for a 744 or 748.
The infrastructure in UBBB is very good, ATC is quit capable, it's not a very busy airport and weather is rarely an issue even when strong winds persist, these are mostly straight down the runway.
