Esenboğa International Airport
| Esenboğa International Airport Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı | |||||||||||||||
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| IATA: ESB – ICAO: LTAC | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | TAV Airports | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Ankara, Turkey | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 3,125 ft / 953 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°07′41″N 032°59′42″E / 40.12806°N 32.99500°ECoordinates: 40°07′41″N 032°59′42″E / 40.12806°N 32.99500°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | esenbogaairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Esenboğa International Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) (Turkish: Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı or Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı), is the international airport of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has been operating since 1955. In 2014, the airport has served more than 11 million passengers in total, 4.9 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranked 4th in terms of total passenger traffic (after Ataturk Airport, Antalya Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport), 3rd in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Ataturk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport) among airports in Turkey.[3]
Overview
The airport is located northeast of Ankara, 28 km (17 mi) from the city 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 70 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.
The name of the airport comes from the village of Esenboğa (the ğ is silent), which literally means "Windflowing Bull" or "Serene Bull", the modernized form of Isen Buga, the name of a Turkic warlord in the army of Timur who settled his troops here during the Battle of Ankara in 1402.[4]
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.[5] 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."
Terminals
Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal constructed under "Build-Operate-Transfer" model has been completed within a record time; a year earlier than the committed completion date. Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal, which went into operation on October 16, 2006 with a capacity of 10 million passengers, are spread over a 182 thousand m2 area.[6] A new general aviation terminal with 469 m2 (5,048 sq ft) area has been opened on January 2012 to service private and business jets.
The New Domestic and International Terminals, opened in 2006, feature 168,000 m2 (1,808,337 sq ft) area, 10,000,000 passenger/year capacity, 18 ea. passenger bridges, 105 check-in counters, 34 passport counters, a parking facility with 123,000 m2 (1,323,961 sq ft) area and 4,000 vehicles capacity.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
| Year | Domestic | % change | International | % change | Total | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10,767,698 |  12% |
1,559,171 | 8% |
12,326,869 | 12% |
| 2014 | 9,567,075 | 2% |
1,445,044 |  8% |
11,012,119 | 1% |
| 2013 | 9,369,832 | 22% |
1,572,228 | 1% |
10,942,060 | 18% |
| 2012 | 7,679,371 | 9% |
1,593,737 | 13% |
9,273,108 | 9% |
| 2011 | 7,080,072 | 10% |
1,405,395 | 6% |
8,485,467 | 9% |
| 2010 | 6,435,211 | 29% |
1,328,693 | 21% |
7,763,914 | 28% |
| 2009 | 4,990,134 | 12% |
1,094,270 | 12% |
6,084,404 | 7% |
| 2008 | 4,444,311 | 23% |
1,247,822 | 8% |
5,692,133 | 15% |
| 2007 | 3,609,122 | 10% |
1,349,006 | 7% |
4,958,128 | 9% |
| 2006 | 3,287,585 | 25% |
1,259,993 | 6% |
4,547,578 | 19% |
| 2005 | 2,640,604 | 23% |
1,189,250 | 5% |
3,829,854 | 17% |
| 2004 | 2,141,047 | 21% |
1,134,678 | 12% |
3,275,725 | 18% |
| 2003 | 1,773,531 | 2% |
1,010,396 | 1% |
2,783,927 | 2% |
| 2002 | 1,814,563 | 1,022,065 | 2,836,628 |
| Year | Domestic | % change | International | % change | Total | % change |
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| 2014 | 78,740 | 2% |
15,681 | 6% |
94,421 | 2% |
| 2013 | 80,107 | 16% |
16,711 | 1% |
96,818 | 13% |
| 2012 | 69,335 | 2.7% |
16,548 | 7.1% |
85,883 | 3.5% |
| 2011 | 67,513 | 13.5% |
15,452 | 7.2% |
82,965 | 12.2% |
| 2010 | 59,509 | 18.2% |
14,420 | 17.5% |
73,929 | 18.1% |
| 2009 | 50,347 | 3.9% |
12,273 | 14.7% |
62,620 | 0.4% |
| 2008 | 48,463 | 1.9% |
14,396 | 11.8% |
62,859 | 1.6% |
| 2007 | 47,578 | 16,331 | 63,909 | |||
Other facilities
- The airport has the head office of AnadoluJet.[10]
- Esenboğa Airport was designated as one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle.[11]
Aviation accidents and incidents at or near the airport
- Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871
- Turkish Airlines Flight 835
- 1964 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash
- 1979 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash
- Turkish Airlines Flight 158
Other airports in Ankara
There are three military airports in Ankara as follows:
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- ↑ "Ankara will become third Turkish Airlines hub". Air Transport World. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ↑ EAD Basic
- 1 2 Statistics
- ↑ Murat Bardakçı: Esenboğa, 600 yıllık bir hezîmetin adıdır
- ↑ ACI EUROPE Best Airport Award winners for 2009 announced
- ↑ Esenboga Airport History
- ↑ "Άρωμα Καππαδοκίας Ιούλιος 2015 Αεροπορική Εκδρομή Απευθείας από Θεσ/νίκη προς Άγκυρα με την Aegean Airlines!". Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ↑ "Jordan-RJ to start serving Ankara in December". menafn.com. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2014/12/03/xg-s15update2/
- ↑ "Contact Us." AnadoluJet. Retrieved on 24 December 2011. "Address: Esenboğa Havalimanı İdari Kat E Adası Anadolu Jet Ofisleri - ANKARA" - Turkish page
- ↑ List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org
External links
Media related to Ankara International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Accident history for ESB at Aviation Safety Network
- Airport information for LTAC at Great Circle Mapper.
- Current weather for LTAC at NOAA/NWS
- Airport information for LTAC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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