Atatürk International Airport

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Atatürk International Airport
Atatürk Uluslararası Havalimanı
TAV ISTANBUL ATATURK.gif
Ataturk Airport overview Karakas.jpg
IATA: ISTICAO: LTBA
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner General Directorate of State Airports
Operator TAV Airports Holding
Serves Istanbul, Turkey
Location Yeşilköy
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 www.ataturkairport.com
Map
IST is located in Istanbul
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 2,600 7,546 Grooved Asphalt
Statistics (2011)
Total passengers 37,452,187
International Passengers 23,847,835
Sources: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Atatürk International Airport (IATA: ISTICAO: LTBA) (Turkish: Atatürk Uluslararası Havalimanı) is the major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Opened in 1924 and located in Yeşilköy, on the European side of the city, it is 24 km (15 mi) west[1] of the city centre. In 1980, the airport was renamed to Atatürk International Airport in honor of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and the first president of the Republic of Turkey. With total passenger traffic of 37 million for the year 2011, it is among the top 40 airports in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and the 12th busiest in the world in terms of international passenger traffic. It was Europe's 8th busiest airport in 2011.

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[edit] Runways

There is a plan to build another runway parallel to runway 05/23, so when the original runway undergoes repairs, this runway will be able to handle aircraft movements without any interruption to service. But in order to work on this project, the land required to build the new runway on belongs to the military, and this is being negotiated between the military and the airport authorities. Also, there are plans to expand the length of runway 05/23, this will allow the runway to be able to handle larger aircraft, as most airlines which serve Istanbul have already begun to use larger aircraft.[2].

[edit] Terminals, airlines and destinations

Atatürk airport has four terminals:

  • Terminal 1, for domestic flights
  • Terminal 2, for international flights
  • Terminal 3, for cargo flights
  • General Aviation Terminal

Inaugurated in 2000, the new international terminal is an efficient and modern terminal. After the new terminal opened, domestic flights were moved to the old international terminal. Despite its 1960s design, this new domestic terminal can handle more passengers than the more modern but smaller previous domestic terminal.

The airport terminals have been operated by TAV (Tepe-Akfen-Ventures) since January 2000. TAV has invested US$600 million since 1998. In 2005 TAV won the concession agreement to operate Atatürk for 15.5 years at a record breaking amount of $4 billion, which also represents the highest figure for such a privatization project in Turkey, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Commonwealth of Independent States and North Africa.

Turkish Airlines aircraft parked at Terminal B.

TAV (Tepe-Akfen-Ventures) 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 3 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 jet ways will be left to the domestics terminal which are on the west of the international terminal, connected to it.

[edit] Passenger

Airlines Destinations Terminal
Adria Airways Ljubljana 2
Aegean Airlines Athens 2
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 2
Aeroflot
operated by Donavia
Rostov-on-Don 2
Aerosvit Airlines Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv-Boryspil, Simferopol 2
Afriqiyah Airways Tripoli 2
Air Algérie Algiers 2
Air Astana Almaty, Astana, Atyrau 2
Air France Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse [begins 3 April 2012] 2
Air Malta Malta 2
Air Moldova Chişinău 2
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson 2
airBaltic Riga 2
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 2
Ariana Afghan Airlines Kabul 2
Armavia Yerevan 2
Asiana Airlines Seoul-Incheon 2
Atlasjet Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Izmir 1
Atlasjet Arbil, Basra, Ercan, Hurghada, Jeddah, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Seasonal: Barcelona, Dubrovnik, Madrid, Mykonos, Najaf, Sulaimaniyah
2
Austrian Airlines Vienna 2
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku 2
Azmar Airlines Sulaimaniyah 2
Belavia Minsk 2
B&H Airlines Sarajevo 2
British Airways London-Heathrow 2
Buraq Air Benghazi, Tripoli 2
Caspian Airlines Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
China Southern Airlines Urumqi 2
Condor Flugdienst Seasonal: Frankfurt 2
Corendon Airlines Amsterdam, Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Croatia Airlines Zagreb 2
Delta Air Lines New York-JFK 2
Donbassaero Donetsk 2
Dniproavia Dnipropetrovsk 2
EgyptAir Cairo 2
Emirates Dubai 2
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi 2
Freebird Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lyon, Madrid, Málaga, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nantes, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Seville, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Toulouse, Vienna, Zürich 2
Gulf Air Bahrain 2
Iberia Madrid 2
Iran Air Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Iraqi Airways Arbil, Baghdad, Basrah 2
JAT Airways Belgrade 2
Jetairfly Brussels, Brussels South-Charleroi 2
KLM Amsterdam 2
Korean Air Seoul-Incheon 2
Kuban Airlines Krasnodar 2
Kuwait Airways Kuwait 2
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 2
Libyan Airlines Benghazi, Tripoli 2
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw 2
Lufthansa Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 4 June 2012], Frankfurt, Munich 2
Mahan Air Isfahan, Tehran-Imam Khomeini 2
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur 2
Middle East Airlines Beirut 2
Olympic Air Athens 2
Onur Air Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Gaziantep, İzmir, Malatya, Samsun, Trabzon 1
Onur Air Barcelona, Dubai, Ercan, Milan-Malpensa, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Sharjah 2
Pegasus Airlines Ankara, Bodrum[2] 1
Pegasus Airlines operated by IZair İzmir 1
Qatar Airways Doha 2
Red Wings Airlines Moscow-Vnukovo 2
Rossiya St Petersburg 2
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca 2
Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia 2
Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh 2
SCAT Aktau 2
Singapore Airlines Athens, Singapore 2
Somon Air Dushanbe 2
Swiss International Airlines Zürich 2
Tajik Air Dushanbe 2
TAROM Bucharest-Henri Coandă 2
Tatarstan Airlines Kazan 2
Tunis Air Monastir, Tunis 2
Turkish Airlines Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Ankara, Antalya, Batman, Bodrum, Çanakkale, Dalaman, Denizli, Diyarbakir, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Isparta, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kars, Kayseri, Konya, Malatya, Mardin, Merzifon, Muş, Nevşehir, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Sinop, Sivas, Trabzon, Uşak, Van 1
Turkish Airlines A Coruña [begins 28 May 2012], Abu Dhabi, Accra, Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Alexandria-Borg el Arab, Algiers, Almaty, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Arbil, Ashgabat, Astana, Athens, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Basrah, Basel/Mulhouse, Batumi, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Benghazi, Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June 2012], Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012], Bilbao [begins 28 May 2012], Birmingham, Bishkek, Bologna, Bremen [begins 26 April 2012], Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chicago-O'Hare, Chişinău, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dakar, Damascus, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Dnipropetovsk, Doha, Donetsk, Dubai, Dublin, Dushanbe, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Ercan, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kabul, Karachi, Kazan, Kharkiv [begins 13 March 2012], Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil, Kuwait, Lagos, Leipzig-Halle [begins 28 May 2012], Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Lviv, Lyon, Ljubljana, Madinah, Madrid, Málaga, Manchester, Mashad, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Misurata, Mogadishu [begins 05 March 2012], Moscow-Sheremetyevo [ends 24 March 2012], Moscow-Vnukovo [begins 25 March 2012][3], Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, Najaf, Naples, New York-JFK, Nice, Novosibirsk [begins 14 March 2012], Nuremberg, Odesa, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Podgorica, Prague, Pristina, Riga, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, St Petersburg, Sana'a, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sarajevo, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Simferopol, Singapore, Skopje, Sochi, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Sulaymaniyah, Tabriz, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv-ben Gurion, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Toulouse, Tripoli, Tunis, Turin, Ufa, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Warsaw-Chopin, Washington-Dulles, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zürich 2
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat 2
United Airlines Newark [begins 2 July 2012][4] 2
Uzbekistan Airlines Tashkent 2

[edit] Cargo airlines

Airlines Destinations
ACT Airlines Bahrain, Hong Kong, New York-JFK, Lahore, Singapore, Tallinn
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle
DHL Aviation
operated by MNG Airlines
Leipzig/Halle
FedEx Express Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Korean Air Cargo Seoul-Incheon
Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt
MNG Airlines Hahn, London-Luton, Milan-Malpensa, Tallinn
Saudi Arabian Airlines Cargo Dammam, Riyadh
Silk Way Airlines Baku
TNT Airways Liege
Turkish Airlines Cargo Addis Ababa, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Beirut, Bishkek, Budapest, Cairo, Casablanca, Cologne/Bonn, Damascus, Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Lagos, London-Gatwick, Maastricht/Aachen, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Nairobi[5], New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Riyadh, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharjah[5], Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Zürich [6]
ULS Airlines Cargo Beijing-Capital, Hong Kong, Manila, Manston, Shanghai-Pudong
UPS Airlines Cologne/Bonn, Newark, Shenzhen
Uzbekistan Airways Cargo Tashkent

[edit] Traffic and statistics

Busiest International Routes from Atatürk Int. Airport (2011)[7]
Rank City Airlines
1 Germany Frankfurt, Germany Condor Flugdienst, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines
2 Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands Corendon Airlines, KLM, Turkish Airlines
3 United Kingdom London-Heathrow, United Kingdom British Airways, Turkish Airlines
4 Italy Rome-Fiumicino Alitalia, Atlasjet, Turkish Airlines
5 United States New York-JFK Delta Air Lines, Turkish Airlines
6 United Arab Emirates Dubai Emirates, Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
7 Spain Madrid-Barajas Freebird, Iberia, Turkish Airlines
8 France Paris-Charles de Gaulle Air France, Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
9 Germany Munich Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines
10 South Korea Seoul-Incheon Asiana Airlines, Korean Airlines, Turkish Airlines
11 Austria Vienna Austrian Airlines, Turkish Airlines
12 Italy Milan-Malpensa Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
13 Germany Berlin-Tegel Turkish Airlines
14 Switzerland Zurich Swiss International Airlines, Turkish Airlines
15 Germany Düsseldorf Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines
16 United States Chicago-O'Hare Turkish Airlines
17 Singapore Singapore Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines
18 Greece Athens Aegean Airlines, Olympic Airlines, Turkish Airlines
19 Canada Toronto-Pearson Air Transat, Turkish Airlines
20 China Beijing-Capital Turkish Airlines
Busiest Domestic Routes from İstanbul Atatürk Int. Airport (2011)
Rank Airport Passengers
1 Flag of Turkey.svg Ankara Onur Air, Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines
2 Flag of Turkey.svg İzmir Atlasjet, Izair, Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
3 Flag of Turkey.svg Antalya Atlasjet, Onur Air, Sky Airlines Turkish Airlines
4 Flag of Turkey.svg Adana Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
5 Flag of Turkey.svg Diyarbakır Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
6 Flag of Turkey.svg Erzurum Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
7 Flag of Turkey.svg Trabzon Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
8 Flag of Turkey.svg Bodrum Atlasjet, Onur Air, Pegasus Airlines, Turkish Airlines
9 Flag of Turkey.svg Samsun Onur Air, Turkish Airlines
10 Flag of Turkey.svg Kayseri Turkish Airlines

[edit] Other facilities

Turkish Airlines headquarters

Turkish Airlines has its headquarters in the Turkish Airlines General Management Building, located on the airport property.[8][9]

[edit] Traffic

Atatürk Airport still faces capacity issues; it ranks somewhere between 30th and 40th in the world by both cargo and passenger traffic, handling over 947,000 tonnes of load (cargo, freight and mail) and over 32.1 million passengers in the year 2010. The total number of passengers has doubled in the past five years, and domestic traffic has almost quadrupled (see statistics section below). Its rated capacity of 14 million international passengers per year and 10 million domestic passengers per year was barely sufficient for the demand in 2007 and 2008. The Istanbul greater metropolitan area is expected/projected to have a demand of 35 million international passengers and 25 million domestic passengers annually by the year 2015.[citation needed] However, introduction of high speed trains between Ankara and Istanbul in 2012, and completion of the construction of the intercity highways linking Istanbul to other cities (to Bursa, İzmir, Antalya and the Black Sea Speedway) may help decrease this demand.[citation needed]

A view from the interior of the international terminal.

Atatürk shares traffic with Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, which is on the Anatolian (Asian) side of Istanbul, which had annual passenger traffic of just 11.1 million in 2010. The two airports both provide domestic and international service to the Istanbul area.

A third big airport is being planned in Silivri suburb 40 km west of Istanbul, in order to meet Istanbul's growing domestic and international air traffic demand as a source, destination and transit point.[10]

IST ranked 19th in ACI statistics at the end of 2010 in terms of international traffic with over 20 Million international passengers. If the current passenger growth maintains itself, IST is expected to become one of the 30 busiest airports in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and top 15 in terms of international traffic by the end of year 2012.[11][12]

Below is the passenger data for Istanbul for the years 2002–2011:[13]

[edit] Statistics

The 'total' column below exclude the number of transit passengers. [3][4]

İstanbul Atatürk International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics
Year (months) Domestic  % change Inter- national  % change World Rank (Intnl) Total  % change World Rank (Total)
2011 (all)* 13,604,352 increase15.0% 23,847,835 increase17.0% 12th 37,452,187 increase17.0% 28th
2010 (all) 11,800,999 increase3.0% 20,344,620 increase11.0% 19th 32,145,619 increase8.0% 37th
2009 (all) 11,393,645 decrease0.8% 18,363,739 increase7.6% 29,757,384 increase4.2%
2008 (all) 11,484,063 increase19.7% 17,069,069 increase25.5% 28,553,132 increase23.1%
2007 (all) 9,595,923 increase5.5% 13,600,306 increase11.7% 23,196,229 increase9.1%
2006 (all) 9,091,693 increase21.0% 12,174,281 increase3.3% 21,265,974 increase10.2%
2005 (all) 7,512,282 increase38.3% 11,781,487 increase15.9% 19,293,769 increase23.7%
2004 (all) 5,430,925 increase69.9% 10,169,676 increase14.2% 15,600,601 increase28.9
2003 (all) 3,196,045 increase12.1% 8,908,268 increase4.7% 12,104,342 increase6.6%
2002 (all) 2,851,487 8,506,204 11,357,691
İstanbul Airport Load Statistics (cargo+freight+mail)
Year (months) Load  %change Cargo only ***  %change
2011 (all)* 1,064,229 increase12.4% Not Avail. Yet N/A
2010 (all) 947,021 increase15% 414,035 increase14%
2009 (all) 824,975 increase5.3% 367,501 increase5.0%
2008 (all) 766,221 increase4.3% 349,999 increase5.2%
2007 (all) 734,820 increase14% 332,753 increase13.7%
2006 (all) 644,901 increase4.7% 292,678 increase7.3%
2005 (all) 615,909 increase7% 272,735 increase3.1%
2004 (all) 573,284 increase14% 264,599 increase15.5%
2003 (all) 502,692 increase4.7% 229,076 increase8.4%
2002 (all) 480,022 211,412

(*) Preliminary data (**) Estimate based on total transit volume of Turkish airports. (***) Link:[5] Source: DHMI.gov.tr[14]

[edit] Access

A view from the international terminal's entrance and exit areas and the connection bridge to the multi-storey car park.

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

  • Light Rail Service : Light rail service exists between Aksaray and Atatürk International Airport. The line goes through some major parts of the European side of the city; including the intercity bus terminal. The LRT takes the passengers to Aksaray in 30–35 minutes.[15] The approximate cost is 0.75 euros one-way.
  • Airport Shuttle Service : The shuttle services are operated by Havaş, which is one of the major ground handling companies within Turkey. The busses run half-hourly to Bakırköy, Yenikapı, Aksaray, Taksim Square, hourly to Kozyatağı (on the Anatolian side), two-hourly to EtilerAkmerkez. Also, there is a fast ferry terminal in Bakırköy which connects the terminal to Bostancı and Kadıköy. Havaş buses run between the airport and the fast ferry terminal according to the departures and arrivals of the ferries.[16]
  • Municipality Bus : Municipality buses also run to Taksim, Etiler and Kozyatağı. This is a slower but much cheaper alternative than Havaş.[17]
  • Car : The airport is accessible through the coastal road, D-100 international road and TEM (Trans-European Motorway).

[edit] Incidents and accidents

[edit] At the airport

  • 2006 fire: At about 3:30 p.m. (local summer time, GMT+3) on 24 May 2006, a fire broke out in the cargo terminal (Terminal C) building, about 1 km away from the international and domestic terminal buildings, billowing clouds of black smoke and forcing the suspension of some air traffic. Local officials have reportedly attributed the fire to sparks from a soldering iron. Three people were treated for smoke inhalation. The fire was under control after 90 minutes of work by firemen accompanying two Bombardier CL-215 fire-fighting planes which were hired two days previously by the Metropolitan Municipality.[18]
  • On 23 March 2007 an Ariana Afghan Airlines Airbus A300B4 (YA-BAD) after a flight from Kabul via Ankara, landed at Atatürk International Airport, overran the runway and came to a halt resting on its right wing. The weather at the time was poor with rain and gusting winds. As of 2007 the aircraft was being dismantled.[19]

[edit] Involving aircraft arriving to and departing from the airport

[edit] References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

[edit] External links

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