Istanbul Atatürk Airport

Istanbul Atatürk Airport
İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı
IATA: IST – ICAO: LTBA
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner General Directorate of State Airports
Operator TAV Airports
Serves Istanbul, Turkey
Location Yeşilköy, Bakırköy
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 163 ft / 50 m
Coordinates 40°58′34″N 028°48′51″E / 40.97611°N 28.81417°E / 40.97611; 28.81417Coordinates: 40°58′34″N 028°48′51″E / 40.97611°N 28.81417°E / 40.97611; 28.81417
Website ataturkairport.com
Map
IST

Location within Istanbul

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17L/35R 3,000 9,843 Concrete
17R/35L 3,000 9,843 Concrete
05/23 2,580 8,465 Grooved Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Total passengers 61,322,729
International passengers 41,947,327
Source: AIP Turkey[1]

Istanbul Atatürk Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA) (Turkish: İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı) is the main international airport serving Istanbul, and the biggest airport in Turkey by total number of passengers, destinations served and aircraft movements. Opened in 1924 in Yeşilköy, on the European side of the city, it is located 24 km (15 mi) west[2] of the city centre and serves as the main hub for Turkish Airlines. The city's other smaller international airport is Sabiha Gökçen International Airport.

The airport was originally named Yeşilköy Airport. In the 1980s, it was renamed Istanbul Atatürk International Airport in honour of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. It served more than 60 million passengers in 2015, making it the 11th busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and the 10th busiest in the world in terms of international passenger traffic. As of 2015, it is Europe's 3rd busiest airport just after London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle and ahead of Frankfurt Airport.[3]

Facilities

Terminals

Istanbul Atatürk Airport features two main passenger terminals which are interconnected to each other:[4]

Terminal 1

Terminal 1 is the older and smaller of the two terminals and exclusively handles domestic flights within Turkey. Until the opening of Terminal 2, it used to be the airport's international terminal. Terminal 1 features its own check-in and airside facilities on the upper floor that lead to twelve departure gates (101-112) which are equipped with jet bridges.[4] On the ground level there are five baggage reclaim belts as well as a curbside independent from Terminal 2.[4]

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 was inaugurated in 2000 and is used for all international flights. It features a large main hall containing eight check-in isles and a wide range of airside facilities such as shops and restaurants. The departures area consists of 27 gates (201-226) which are all equipped with jetbridges as well as several bus-boarding stands. The arrivals floor below is equipped with 11 baggage reclaim belts.[4] Terminal 2 is able to handle widebody aircraft such as Turkish Airlines' Boeing 777-300ERs.

There is also an additional terminal for general aviation to the northwest of the main areas[5] as well as a dedicated cargo terminal including sections for radioactive and refrigerated freight.[6]

The airport terminals have been operated by TAV Airports since January 2000. TAV has already invested US$600 million since 1998. In 2005 TAV won the concession agreement to operate Atatürk for 15.5 years at an amount of $4 billion. TAV started its construction at the airport for new boarding gates at international terminal as well as building a new air traffic control tower. Unused facility buildings are demolished and three new boarding bridges are being built. When the new tower is completed, the old one will be demolished. When the international terminal is expanded, some of the jetways will be left to the domestics terminal which are on the west of the international terminal, connected to it.

Replacement

Main article: Istanbul New Airport

A third big airport for the city under the project name Istanbul New Airport is currently under construction in order to meet Istanbul's growing domestic and international air traffic demand as a source, destination and transit point. A site in the European part on the coast of the Black Sea has been chosen[7][8][9][10] and construction started in May 2015.[11] Once the new airport is finished, Atatürk will be closed.[12][13]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Istanbul Atatürk Airport:[14]

Layout of the airport
Terminal 1 in the 1980s
Apron overview
Terminal 2
Apron in front of Terminal 2
Runway
Turkish Airlines maintains its hub at Istanbul Atatürk Airport
AtlasGlobal is another major operator at Istanbul Atatürk Airport
AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Aegean Airlines Athens 2
Aegean Airlines
operated by Olympic Air 		Seasonal: Athens (resumes 26 March 2017)[15] 2
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 2
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya		 Saint Petersburg 2
Afriqiyah Airways Bayda, Tripoli-Mitiga 2
Air Algérie Algiers, Annaba, Constantine, Oran 2
Air Astana Aktau, Almaty, Astana, Atyrau 2
Air CanadaToronto-Pearson 2
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 2
Air Moldova Chişinău 2
Air SerbiaBelgrade 2
Ariana Afghan Airlines Kabul 2
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon 2
Ata Airlines Tabriz 2
AtlasGlobal Adana, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Edremit, Gaziantep, Izmir, Kayseri, Konya 1
AtlasGlobal Amsterdam, Baghdad, Basra, Beirut, Bishkek, Chișinău, Doha, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Jeddah, Kaliningrad, London-Stansted, Makhachkala, Medina, Milan–Malpensa, Najaf, Nicosia–Ercan, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Sharjah, Sharm el-Sheikh, Shymkent, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sulaymaniyah, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Zürich
Seasonal: Mykonos, Pristina, Sarajevo 		2
AtlasGlobal Ukraine Kharkiv, Lviv, Zaporizhia 2
AZALJet Baku 2
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku 2
Belavia Minsk 2
British Airways London-Heathrow 2
Buraq Air Tripoli 2
Caspian Airlines Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Dniproavia Dnipropetrovsk 2
EgyptAir Cairo 2
Emirates Dubai-International 2
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi 2
Ghadames Air Transport Tripoli-Mitiga 2
Gulf Air Bahrain 2
Iran Air Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Iran Aseman Airlines Urmia 2
Iraqi Airways Baghdad, Basra, Erbil, Sulaimaniyah 2
Jazeera AirwaysKuwait City 2
Jetairfly Brussels, Charleroi 2
KLM Amsterdam 2
Korean Air Seoul-Incheon 2
Kuwait Airways Kuwait City 2
Libyan Airlines Bayda, Tripoli-Mitiga, Tripoli 2
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin 2
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Seasonal: Munich 		2
Mahan Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Meraj Airlines Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Mashhad 2
Middle East Airlines Beirut 2
Onur Air Adana, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Gazipaşa-Alanya, Izmir, Malatya, Samsun, Trabzon 1
Onur Air Amsterdam, Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Isfahan, Nalchik, Nicosia–Ercan, Odessa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna 		2
Pegasus Airlines Izmir 1
Qatar Airways Doha 2
Qeshm Airlines Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca 2
Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia 2
Saudia Dammam, Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh 2
SCAT Aktau 2
Singapore Airlines Singapore 2
Somon Air Dushanbe 2
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich (resumes 25 March 2017)[16] 2
Taban Air Isfahan 2
Tajik Air Dushanbe 2
TAROM Bucharest 2
Tunisair Tunis 2
Turkish AirlinesAdana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Ankara, Antalya, Batman, Bingöl, Bodrum, Çanakkale, Dalaman, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Gazipaşa-Alanya, Hakkari, Hatay, Iğdır, Izmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Mardin, Merzifon, Muş, Nevşehir, Ordu-Giresun, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Sinop, Sivas, Trabzon, Van 1
Turkish Airlines Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Ahvaz, Alexandria, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Antananarivo, Ashgabat, Asmara, Astana, Astrakhan, Athens, Atlanta, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bamako, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Bari, Basel/Mulhouse, Basra, Batumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Birmingham, Bishkek, Bogotá, Bologna, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Cape Town, Caracas (begins 20 December 2016),[17] Casablanca, Catania, Chicago-O'Hare, Chişinău, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Colombo, Constanța, Constantine, Copenhagen, Cotonou, Dakar, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Djibouti, Dnipropetrovsk, Doha, Douala, Dubai-International, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Durban, Dushanbe, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Entebbe/Kampala, Erbil, Frankfurt, Ganja, Geneva, Gothenburg, Graz, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hannover, Havana (begins 20 December 2016),[17] Hanoi, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Hurghada, Isfahan, Islamabad, Jakarta-Soekarno Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg-O. R. Tambo, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kazan, Khartoum, Kherson, Kiev-Boryspil, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Kinshasa-N'djili, Košice, Kuala Lumpur-International, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Leipzig/Halle, Libreville, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Lviv, Lyon, Madrid, Mahé, Málaga, Malé, Malta, Manchester, Manila, Maputo, Marseille, Mashhad, Mauritius, Mazar-i-Sharif, Medina, Milan-Malpensa, Miami, Minsk-National, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Montréal–Trudeau, Moscow-Vnukovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, N'Djamena, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Najaf, Nakhchivan, Naples, New York-JFK, Niamey, Nice, Nicosia–Ercan, Nouakchott, Novosibirsk, Nuremberg, Odessa, Oran, Osaka-Kansai (ends 31 January 2017),[18] Oslo-Gardermoen, Ouagadougou, Panama City–Tocumen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phuket (begins 17 July 2017),[19] Podgorica, Porto, Prague, Pristina, Riga, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Salzburg, San Francisco, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Sarajevo, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharm el-Sheikh,[20] Shiraz, Singapore, Skopje, Sochi, Sofia, Stavropol, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Sulaymaniyah, Tabriz, Ta'if, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Toulouse, Tunis, Turin, Ufa, Ulan Bator, Valencia, Varna, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw-Chopin, Washington-Dulles, Yanbu, Yaoundé, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zanzibar (begins 12 December 2016),[21] Zaporizhia, Zürich
Seasonal: Batna, Bordeaux, Friedrichshafen, Gassim, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Münster/Osnabrück, Pisa, Tlemcen 		2
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat, Turkmenbashi 2
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil, Lviv, Odessa 2
Uzbekistan Airlines Tashkent 2
Yakutia AirlinesKrasnodar 2
Zagros Airlines Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Zagrosjet Erbil 2

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Air Algérie Cargo Algiers
Air France Cargo Paris-Charles de Gaulle
ASL Airlines Belgium Liège
DHL Aviation
operated by MNG Airlines 		Leipzig/Halle
EgyptAir Cargo Cairo
FedEx Express Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Hong Kong Airlines Almaty, Hong Kong, New Delhi
Iran Air Cargo Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt
MNG Airlines Almaty, Cologne/Bonn, Hahn, London-Luton, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tripoli-Mitiga
MyCargo Airlines Bahrain, Hong Kong, Lahore, New York-JFK, Singapore, Tallinn
Royal Jordanian Cargo Amman
Qatar Airways Cargo Doha
Silk Way Airlines Baku
Turkish Airlines Cargo Accra, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Ashgabat, Astana, Atlanta, Baghdad,[22] Baku, Bangkok, Beirut, Belgrade, Bishkek, Budapest, Cairo, Casablanca, Chennai,Chicago, Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai-Al Maktoum, Entebbe, Erbil, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Khartoum, Kiev, Kinshasa, Lagos, London-Stansted, Maastricht, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Mumbai, Nairobi, Niš,[23] New York-JFK, Sarajevo, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Shannon, Stockholm, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Vienna, Zürich
ULS Airlines Cargo Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Hong Kong, Kiev-Boryspil, Manila, Manston, Shanghai-Pudong
UPS Airlines Algiers, Cologne/Bonn, Newark, Shenzhen
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent

Statistics

Istanbul Atatürk Airport shares traffic with Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, which is on the Anatolian (Asian) side of Istanbul, which had annual passenger traffic of 11.1 million in 2010 rising to 28m in 2015.

Below is the passenger data and development for Istanbul Atatürk Airport (only) for the years 2002–2015:[24]

Passenger statistics at Atatürk Int'l Airport[24]
Year
Domestic
passengers
Passenger
% change
International
passenger
Passenger
% change
Total
passenger
Passenger
% change
World rank
international
World rank
total
2015[25] 19,375,402 Increase4 41,947,327 Increase10 61,322,729 Increase810th[26]11th[27]
2014 18,754,002 Increase9 38,200,788 Increase12 56,954,790[28] Increase119th13th[29]
2013 17,224,105Increase13 34,096,770Increase14 51,320,875Increase1410th18th
201215,281,321Increase1429,717,196Increase2444,998,508Increase2013th[30]21st[31]
201113,604,352Increase1523,847,835Increase1737,452,187Increase1717th28th
201011,800,999Increase320,344,620Increase1132,145,619Increase819th37th
200911,393,645Decrease118,363,739Increase829,757,384Increase4SteadySteady
200811,484,063Increase2017,069,069Increase2628,553,132Increase23SteadySteady
20079,595,923Increase613,600,306Increase1223,196,229Increase9SteadySteady
20069,091,693Increase2112,174,281Increase321,265,974Increase10SteadySteady
20057,512,282Increase3911,781,487Increase1619,293,769Increase24SteadySteady
20045,430,925Increase7010,169,676Increase1415,600,601Increase29SteadySteady
20033,196,045Increase128,908,268Increase512,104,342Increase7SteadySteady
20022,851,487Steady8,506,204Steady11,357,691SteadySteadySteady

IST ranked 17th in ACI statistics at the end of 2011 in terms of international traffic with almost 24 Million international passengers. It ranked 29th in the world in terms of total passenger traffic with over 37.4 Million passengers in 2011. Its total traffic within the last decade more than tripled, and its international traffic quadrupled.[32][33]

According to data from FlightStats in 2012, the Atatürk Airport had the most flight delays in Europe, and was ranked second in flight cancellations.[34]

Other facilities

Ground transport

There are several ways to travel between Atatürk International Airport and the city center.

Rail

Subway Service: Metro service on the Istanbul Metro line M1A exists between Yenikapı and Atatürk International Airport. The line goes through some major parts of the European side of the city, including the intercity bus terminal.[39]

Bus and coach

The shuttle services are operated by Havataş, which is one of the major ground handling companies within Turkey. The buses run half-hourly to Bakırköy, Yenikapı, Aksaray, Taksim Square.[40] Municipality buses also run to Taksim, Etiler and Kozyatağı.[41]

Car

The airport is accessible through the coastal road, D-100 international road and TEM (Trans-European Motorway).

Accidents and incidents

Accolades

References

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External links

Istanbul Atatürk Airport travel guide from Wikivoyage
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