| Esenboğa International Airport Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı |
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| IATA: ESB – ICAO: LTAC | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | TAV. Airport Management | ||
| Location | Ankara | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,125 ft / 953 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 03R/21L | 3,750 | 12,303 | Asphalt |
| 03L/21R | 3,750 | 12,303 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 7,759,479 | ||
| Source: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] | |||
Esenboğa International Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) (Turkish: 'Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı or Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı'), is an airport located 28 km (17 mi) northeast[1] of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has been operating since 1955. The name of the airport comes from the village of Esenboğa (the g is silent), which literally means "flying bull".
In 2009, ESB served 6,085,126 passengers, 4,987,983 of which were domestic passengers. It ranked 5th in terms of total passenger traffic, 2nd in terms of domestic traffic and 7th in terms of international traffic among airports in Turkey.[2]
Esenboğa International Airport was awarded as the best airport in Europe by ACI Europe (Airport Council International) and the award presented to airport officials on 17 June 2009 in Manchester. The award is given in 4 categories every year and Esenboğa was in 5–10 million per annum category. It is the first time an ACI award was granted to a Turkish Airport.[3] According to ACI-Europe, "As with number of the top candidates in this category, the airport excels in all the keys areas of operations, however the judges singled it out for its work in the area of environmental innovation, securing an incredible 25% energy savings stemming from its recycling of exhaust gases to power its air conditioning plants."
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The airport is located northeast of Ankara, 28 km (17 mi) from the center. The airport is connected with Kızılay (the city center) and Ankara Intercity Bus Terminal (Turkish: Ankara Şehirlerarası Terminal İşletmesi, AŞTİ) by EGO city bus number 442 (from 6 am to 11pm). Transportation to the city center is also by taxi (around TRY 45 one way, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (approximately TRY 12,5 one way). The road between Esenboğa airport and the Ankara ring road was expanded during the summer of 2006, decreasing the driving time between the city center and the airport by several minutes.
A combined domestic and international terminal has recently opened, on October 2006, following two years of construction works.
The New Domestic and International Terminals have the properties as set below:
The airport has the head office of AnadoluJet.[4]
Esenboğa Airport has been designated as one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle.[5]
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Airblue | Islamabad, Manchester |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino |
| Ariana Afghan Airlines | Kandahar, Kabul |
| Armavia | Yerevan [begins 2 April] |
| Arkefly | Amsterdam |
| Atlasjet | London-Stansted [begins 7 April 2012], Ercan |
| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku |
| Corendon Airlines | Amsterdam |
| EgyptAir | Cairo |
| EgyptAir operated by EgyptAir Express | Alexandria |
| Fly Hellas | Seasonal: Athens |
| Germania | Berlin-Tegel, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Hanover |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt [begins 24 March 2012], Munich |
| Motor Sich Airlines | Seasonal: Kiev-Zhulyany |
| Pegasus Airlines | Berlin-Schönefeld, Bodrum, Cologne/Bonn, Diyarbakır, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Ercan, Erzurum, Istanbul-Ataturk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Trabzon, Van, Vienna |
| Pegasus operated by IZair | Izmir |
| Petra Airlines | Amman-Queen Alia |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Saudi Arabian Airlines | Jeddah, Riyadh |
| SunExpress operated by SunExpress Deutschland | Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen |
| Turkish Airlines operated by AnadoluJet | Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Alanya, Amsterdam, Antalya, Balıkesir, Batman, Batumi, Bodrum, Bursa, Çanakkale, Copenhagen, Diyarbakır, Edremit, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Hatay, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen, Izmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kars, London-Stansted, Malatya, Mardin, Moscow-Domodedovo, Muş, Nicosia-Ercan, Samsun, Siirt, Şanlıurfa, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tekirdağ, Trabzon, Van, Vienna Seasonal: Brussels,Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf |
| Transavia | Amsterdam |
| XL Airways Germany | Frankfurt |
| Year (months) | Domestic | % change | International | % change | Total | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 (November)* | 6,511,443 | 11.0% | 1,300,278 | 5.0% | 7,811,721 | 10.0% |
| 2010 (all) | 6,433,490 | 29.0% | 1,325,489 | 21.0% | 7,759,479 | 28.0% |
| 2009 (all) | 4,987,983 | 12.2% | 1,097,143 | 12.1% | 6,085,126 | 6.9% |
| 2008 (all) | 4,444,311 | 23.1% | 1,247,822 | 7.5% | 5,692,133 | 14.8% |
| 2007 (all) | 3,609,122 | 9.8% | 1,349,006 | 7.1% | 4,958,128 | 9.0% |
| 2006 (all) | 3,287,585 | 24.5% | 1,259,993 | 5.9% | 4,547,578 | 18.7% |
| 2005 (all) | 2,640,604 | 23.3% | 1,189,250 | 4.8% | 3,829,854 | 16.9% |
| 2004 (all) | 2,141,047 | 20.7% | 1,134,678 | 12.3% | 3,275,725 | 17.6% |
| 2003 (all) | 1,773,531 | 0.02% | 1,010,396 | 0.01% | 2,783,927 | 0.02% |
| 2002 (all) | 1,814,563 | 1,022,065 | 2,836,628 |
(*) Preliminary data. Source: DHMI.gov.tr[2]
There are three military airports in Ankara as follows:
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.