Buta Airways was an Azerbaijani low-cost virtual carrier headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan, with its primary operational base at Heydar Aliyev International Airport. Buta Airways was the successor to AZALJet and a fully owned subsidiary of Azerbaijan Airlines with which it merged in 2023.
History
In December 2015, it was announced that Azerbaijan Airlines would set up its own in-house, low-cost airline named AZALJet. Schedules were launched in September 2016. After some months of operations, it was decided that AZALJet would be replaced by a new airline named Buta Airways, which would have a fleet of two Embraer aircraft in its own livery, operated by its own staff and with an independent tariff policy.[1]
On 2 June 2017, the airline's livery and logo were approved. The logo reflects the symbolism of the mythological sacred bird Simurg, represented in the form of the Azerbaijani ornament buta. On the aircraft's aft and forward section, buta patterns are drawn in blue, which represents the airline's ties with Azerbaijan Airlines, and also in a bright red, which refers to Azerbaijan's flag.[2]