Airport in Ankara, Turkey
Ankara Esenboğa Airport (IATA :ESB ,ICAO :LTAC ) is aninternational airport ofAnkara , the capital city ofTurkey . In 2024, the airport has served more than 12 million passengers in total, 9 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranked 4th in terms of total passenger traffic (afterIstanbul Airport ,Sabiha Gökçen Airport andAntalya Airport ), 3rd in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Istanbul Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport) among airports in Turkey[ 3] as well as one ofthe busiest airports in the Middle East . The airport was ranked 22nd in the "100 Things That Give Hope in Turkey" list published in the 100th issue of Newsweek Turkey magazine.[citation needed ]
The airport is located northeast ofAnkara , 28 km (17 mi) from the city center. The airport is connected withKızılay (the city center) andAnkara 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 900 one way, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (approximately TRY 120 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.[citation needed ]
The name of the airport comes from the village ofEsenboğa , which literally means "Windflowing Bull" or "Serene Bull", the modernized form of Isen Buqa, the name of aTurkic warlord in the army ofTimur who settled his troops here during theBattle 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." In 2020, Esenboğa Airport was awarded as the best European airport with a capacity of 15 – 25 million passengers byAirports Council International .[ 6]
A new parallel runway is under construction to the east of the terminal building. Upon the completion, the current runway 03R/21L will be resigned as 03C/21C and the new runway will receive the latter's former designation.[ 7]
Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal constructed under "Build-Operate-Transfer" model has been completed. Esenboga Airport current Terminal, which went into operation on October 16, 2006, with a capacity of 10 million passengers, are spread over a 182,000 square metres (1,960,000 sq ft) area.[ 8] A new general aviation terminal with 469 m2 (5,048 sq ft) area has been opened in January 2012 to service private and business jets.[citation needed ]
The new terminal, 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.[citation needed ]
Airlines and destinations [ edit ] The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Ankara Esenboğa Airport:
Airlines Destinations Air Albania Seasonal: Tirana [ 9] Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade [ 10] [ 11] AJet [ 12] Adana/Mersin ,[ 13] [ 14] Adıyaman ,[ 15] Ağrı ,[ 13] Almaty ,[ 16] Amman–Queen Alia ,[ 17] Amsterdam ,[ 17] Antalya ,[ 13] Astana ,[ 16] Baghdad ,[ 18] Baku ,[ 13] Barcelona ,[ 19] Batman ,[ 13] Beirut ,Belgrade ,[ 13] Berlin ,[ 15] Bingöl ,[ 13] Bishkek ,[ 13] [ 20] Bodrum ,[ 13] Bursa ,Cairo ,[ 21] Çanakkale ,[ 13] Dalaman ,[ 13] Damascus ,[ 22] Diyarbakır ,[ 13] Dubai–International ,[ 13] [ 23] Düsseldorf ,[ 15] Edremit ,[ 13] Elazığ ,[ 15] Erbil ,[ 24] Ercan ,[ 13] Erzincan ,[ 13] Erzurum ,[ 17] Frankfurt ,[ 15] Gaziantep ,[ 13] Gazipaşa/Alanya ,[ 13] Hakkari ,[ 13] Hatay ,[ 13] Iğdır ,[ 13] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen ,[ 13] İzmir ,[ 13] Jeddah ,Kahramanmaraş ,[ 13] Kars ,[ 13] London–Stansted ,[ 15] Madrid ,[ 19] Malatya ,[ 13] Mardin ,[ 13] Medina ,Moscow–Vnukovo ,Muş ,[ 13] Ordu/Giresun ,[ 13] Paris–Charles de Gaulle ,[ 13] Rize/Artvin ,[ 13] [ 25] Samsun ,[ 13] Şanlıurfa ,[ 13] Siirt ,[ 15] Şırnak ,[ 13] Tashkent ,[ 26] Tbilisi ,[ 27] Tehran–Imam Khomeini ,Tokat ,Trabzon ,[ 13] Van ,[ 13] Vienna [ 13] Seasonal: Brussels ,[ 28] Cologne/Bonn ,[ 15] Geneva ,[ 13] Hamburg ,Munich ,[ 15] Skopje ,[ 29] Stockholm–Arlanda ,[ 17] Stuttgart [ 15] [ 30] Ariana Afghan Airlines Kabul Azerbaijan Airlines Baku Corendon Airlines [ 31] Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn ,[ 32] Düsseldorf ,[ 32] Nuremberg [ 32] FlyArystan Astana Fly Baghdad Baghdad ,Erbil Flydubai Dubai–International [ 33] [ 34] Fly Kıbrıs Airlines Ercan [citation needed ] Iraqi Airways Baghdad ,Erbil ,Kirkuk [ 35] Kam Air Kabul Mahan Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini Pegasus Airlines Almaty ,[ 36] Amman–Queen Alia ,[ 37] Antalya ,[ 37] Baku ,[ 38] Bodrum ,[ 37] Bucharest–Otopeni ,[ 39] Cologne/Bonn ,[ 37] Çorlu ,[ 37] Dubai–International ,Düsseldorf ,[ 37] Erbil ,Ercan ,[ 37] Frankfurt ,[ 37] Hamburg ,[ 37] [ 40] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen ,[ 37] İzmir ,[ 41] Jeddah ,[ 42] Kraków ,[ 43] London–Stansted ,[ 37] Medina ,Sharjah ,Stockholm–Arlanda ,[ 44] Stuttgart ,[ 37] Tbilisi ,[ 45] Tehran–Imam Khomeini ,Vienna ,[ 37] Warsaw–Chopin [ 46] Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse ,[ 47] Berlin ,[ 46] Copenhagen ,[ 48] Lisbon ,[ 49] [ 50] Moscow–Domodedovo [ 41] Qatar Airways Doha Saudia Jeddah ,Medina Sepehran Airlines Tehran–Imam Khomeini [ 51] SunExpress [ 52] Düsseldorf ,[ 37] [ 53] Frankfurt ,[ 37] Hannover ,[ 54] Munich [ 55] [ 54] Seasonal: Amsterdam ,[ 54] Berlin ,[ 56] Brussels ,[ 57] Cologne/Bonn ,[ 54] [ 58] Copenhagen ,[ 59] Hamburg ,[ 56] Stockholm–Arlanda ,[ 56] Stuttgart ,[ 54] Tbilisi ,[ 60] Vienna ,[ 61] Zürich [ 62] Transavia Paris–Orly [ 63] [ 64] Turkish Airlines Istanbul [ 65] UR Airlines Baghdad [ 66] Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent [ 67]
Interior view Interior view Passengers Year 4,000,000 6,000,000 8,000,000 10,000,000 12,000,000 14,000,000 16,000,000 18,000,000 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Passengers Annual passenger traffic Ankara–Esenboğa International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics [ 3] Year Domestic % change International % change Total % change 2024 9,623,337 5%3,229,687 14%12,853,024 8%2023 9,123,505 35%2,827,435 47%11,950,940 38%2022 6,756,212 18%1,923,382 48%8,679,594 23%2021 5,728,315 30%1,301,315 74%7,029,630 36%2020 4,415,805 61%746,764 67%5,162,569 62%2019 11,463,200 21%2,277,395 2%13,740,595 18%2018 14,498,102 5%2,241,901 13%16,740,003 6%2017 13,828,365 20%1,988,793 33%15,817,158 21%2016 11,547,240 9%1,496,876 3%13,044,116 8%2015 10,562,282 10%1,551,157 7%12,113,439 10%2014 9,591,350 2%1,444,256 8%11,035,606 1%2013 9,369,832 22%1,572,228 1%10,942,060 18%2012 7,679,371 8%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
Ankara Esenboğa International Airport Aircraft Movement Statistics Year Domestic % change International % change Total % change 2024 71,541 3%25,341 9%96,882 4%2023 69,762 29%23,312 34%93,074 30%2022 53,926 2%17,429 23%71,355 7%2021 52,753 28%14,160 56%66,913 33%2020 41,321 48%9,073 55%50,394 49%2019 78,871 21%20,371 4%99,242 17%2018 100,258 1%19,513 6%119,771 2%2017 99,384 11%18,453 14%117,837 12%2016 89,458 8%16,152 3%105,610 7%2015 82,852 5%15,758 0%98,610 4%2014 78,712 2%15,706 6%94,418 2%2013 80,107 16%16,711 1%96,818 13%2012 69,335 3%16,548 7%85,883 4%2011 67,513 13%15,452 7%82,965 12%2010 59,509 18%14,420 17%73,929 18%2009 50,347 4%12,273 15%62,620 0%2008 48,463 2%14,396 12%62,859 2%2007 47,578 16,331 63,909
A metro line is planned for Ankara Esenboğa Airport. The new metro line will connect the airport and Yıldırım Beyazıt University to the city's central rail network. The line will be a fully automated metro system, running underground.
Accidents and incidents [ edit ] Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 , aSud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle I registered as OY-KRB, crashed on approach killing all 42 occupants on board.[ 70] Turkish Airlines Flight 835 , aFokker F27 Friendship registered as TC-TAY,crashed into a hill shortly before landing killing 28 occupants out of the 29.British European Airways Flight 226 , ade Havilland Comet 4B registered as G-ARJM, crashed shortly after takeoff due tostalling . Twenty-seven out of the 34 occupants were killed.[ 71] [ 72] 1979 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash , aFokker F28 Fellowship registered as TC-JAT, crashed during approach killing 41 out of the 45 occupants on board.[ 73] Turkish Airlines Flight 158 , aBoeing 727-2F2 registered as TC-JBR, landed 50 meters short of the runway resulting in the deaths of 47 occupants out of the 67.[ 74] ^ EAD Basic . Ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved on 2011-08-01.^ "ACI EUROPE Airport Traffic Report. December, Q4 and Full Year 2015" (PDF) . 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