Istanbul Atatürk Airport

Istanbul Atatürk Airport
İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner General Directorate of State Airports
Operator TAV Airports
Serves Istanbul, Turkey
Location Yeşilköy, Bakırköy, Turkey
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 (2016)
Total passengers 60,119,215
International passengers 41,019,341
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. As of February 2017, 273 destinations are served from Istanbul-Atatürk, making it the airport with the second-most destinations worldwide after Frankfurt Airport.[3]

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 2017, it is Europe's 5th-busiest airport after London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt Airport and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, having fallen from third place after a decline in passengers due to security fears.[4]

Facilities

Terminals

Istanbul Atatürk Airport features two main passenger terminals which are interconnected to each other:[5]

Domestic Terminal

Domestic Terminal is the older and smaller of the two terminals and exclusively handles domestic flights within Turkey. Until the opening of the International Terminal, it used to be the airport's international terminal. Domestic Terminal 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.[5] On the ground level there are five baggage reclaim belts as well as a curbside independent from the International Terminal.[5]

International Terminal

The International Terminal 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.[5] The International Terminal 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[6] as well as a dedicated cargo terminal including sections for radioactive and refrigerated freight.[7]

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 15½ 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

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[8][9][10][11] and construction started in May 2015.[12] Once the new airport is finished, Atatürk will be fully closed.[13][14]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Istanbul Atatürk Airport:[15]

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

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
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo Addis Ababa, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[17]
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,[18] 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/Aachen, Madrid, Milan–Malpensa, Minsk, Mumbai, Nairobi, Niš,[19] New York–JFK, Sarajevo, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Shannon, Stockholm, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Tuzla, 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 2002–2016:[20]

Passenger statistics at Atatürk Int'l Airport[20]
Year
Domestic
passengers
Passenger
% change
International
passenger
Passenger
% change
Total
passenger
Passenger
% change
World rank
international
World rank
total
2017 (July)[21] 12,918,923 Decrease2 23,818,886 Increase1 34,738,809 Increase0,3
2016 19,099,874 Decrease1 41,019,341 Decrease2 60,119,215 Decrease211th[22]14th[23]
2015[24] 19,375,402 Increase4 41,947,327 Increase10 61,322,729 Increase810th[25]11th[26]
2014 18,754,002 Increase9 38,200,788 Increase12 56,954,790[27] Increase119th13th[28]
2013 17,224,105Increase13 34,096,770Increase14 51,320,875Increase1410th18th
201215,281,321Increase1429,717,196Increase2444,998,508Increase2013th[29]21st[30]
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.[31][32]

According to data from FlightStats in 2012, the Atatürk Airport had the most flight delays in Europe, and was ranked second in flight cancellations.[33]

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.[38]

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.[39] Municipality buses also run to Taksim, Etiler and Kozyatağı.[40]

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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