Atatürk International Airport

Atatürk International Airport Atatürk Uluslararası Havalimanı
IATA: IST – ICAO: LTBA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		General Directorate of State Airports
Operator		TAV Airport Management
Serves		Istanbul, Turkey
Location		Yeşilköy
Hub for		Turkish Airlines
Elevation AMSL		163 ft / 50 m
Coordinates		40°58′34″N 028°48′51″E / 40.97611°N 28.81417°E / 40.97611; 28.81417 (Atatürk International Airport)Coordinates: 40°58′34″N 028°48′51″E / 40.97611°N 28.81417°E / 40.97611; 28.81417 (Atatürk International Airport)
Website		www.ataturkairport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
18L/36R	3,000	9,843	Concrete
18R/36L	3,000	9,843	Concrete
06/24	2,300	7,546	Concrete
Statistics (2008)
Total passengers			28,553,132
International Passengers			17,069,069
Sources: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Atatürk International Airport (formerly Yeşilköy International Airport) (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA) (Turkish: Atatürk Uluslararası Havalimanı) is the major international airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Located in Yeşilköy, on the European side of the city, it is 24 km (15 mi) west^[1] of the city centre. The airport is named in honor of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and the first president of the Republic of Turkey. With passenger traffic of 28.5 million for the year 2008, it is projected to be among the top 40 airports in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and top-35 in terms of international passenger traffic. It is Europe's 10th busiest airport. See statistics below for more information.

Contents 1 Terminals 2 Airlines and destinations 2.1 Terminal A - Domestic 2.2 Terminal B - International 2.3 Cargo airlines 3 Services 4 Traffic 5 Statistics 5.1 More statistics 6 Access 7 Incidents and accidents 7.1 At the airport 7.2 Involving aircraft arriving to and departing from the airport 8 Trivia 9 References 10 External links

Terminals

There are three terminals, one international (Terminal B), one domestic (Terminal A) and one cargo terminal (Terminal C). Inaugurated in 2001, the international terminal is an efficient and modern terminal. After the new terminal opened, domestic flights have been moved to the old international terminal. Despite its 1970s 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 $3 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.

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. Also there is a plan to build another runway parallel to runway 06/24, so when the original runway 06/24 is under repair, this runway will be able to handle the traffic without any problem. But to work on this project, the military land is a fact of negotiation between the authorities as the space for new runway belongs to military. Also there are plans to expand the length of the runway 06/24 as well, by this way, runway will be able to handle larger aircraft as most airlines started to fly to Istanbul with larger aircrafts.[1].

Airlines and destinations

Terminal A - Domestic

Airlines	Destinations
AtlasJet	Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir
Onur Air	Adana, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakir, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Izmir, Kayseri, Konya, Malatya, Mardin
Pegasus Airlines operated by IZair	Izmir
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

Terminal B - International

Airlines	Destinations
Adria Airways	Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines	Athens
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aerosvit Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air Astana	Almaty, Astana, Atyrau
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta	Malta
Air Moldova	Chisinau
airBaltic	Riga
Albanian Airlines	Tirana
Alitalia	Rome-Fiumicino, Turin [begins 15 December]
Alitalia operated by Air One	Milan-Malpensa
Ariana Afghan Airlines	Kabul
Armavia	Yerevan
AtlasJet	Erbil, Ercan, Pristina, Sulaimaniyah, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Yerevan
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku
Belavia	Minsk
B&H Airlines	Sarajevo, Tuzla
Blue Wings	Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
British Airways	London-Heathrow
Bulgaria Air	Sofia
Buraq Air	Tripoli
Caspian Airlines	Tehran
Corendon Airlines	Amsterdam, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
CSA Czech Airlines	Prague
Cyprus Turkish Airlines	Ercan
Delta Air Lines	New York–JFK
Donavia	Rostov-on-Don
Donbassaero	Donetsk, Odessa, Simferopol
Dniproavia	Dnepropetrovsk
EgyptAir	Cairo
Emirates	Dubai
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi
Finnair	Helsinki
Germanwings	Berlin-Schönefeld [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund [seasonal], Hamburg [seasonal], Stuttgart [begins 10 February]
Gulf Air	Bahrain
Iberia	Madrid
Iran Air	Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Iraqi Airways	Baghdad
Jat Airways	Belgrade
Jetairfly	Brussels South-Charleroi [begins 4 April]
Kish Air	Tehran
KLM	Amsterdam
Korean Air	Seoul-Incheon
Kuban Airlines	Krasnodar
Libyan Airlines	Benghazi, Tripoli
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich
Mahan Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Malaysia Airlines	Kuala Lumpur
Malév Hungarian Airlines	Budapest
Middle East Airlines	Beirut
Motor Sich Airlines	Zaporizhzhia
Olympic Air	Athens, Thessaloniki
Onur Air	Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Pakistan International Airlines	Amsterdam, Islamabad
Polet Airlines	Voronezh
Red Wings Airlines	Moscow-Vnukovo
Rossiya	St Petersburg
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Royal Jordanian Airlines	Amman
Qatar Airways	Doha
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh
Scandinavian Airlines System	Stockholm-Arlanda
SCAT	Aktau
Singapore Airlines	Dubai, Singapore
SkyExpress	Moscow-Vnukovo
Swiss International Airlines	Geneva, Zürich
Taban Airlines	Mashhad, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Tailwind Airlines	Dusseldorf
Tajikistan Airlines	Dushanbe
TAROM	Bucharest-Henri Coandă
Tatarstan Airlines	Kazan
Tunis Air	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Algiers, Almaty, Amman, Amsterdam, Ashgabat, Astana, Athens, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Benghazi, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Bishkek, Bologna [begins 1 March][2], Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chicago-O'Hare, Chisinau, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dakar [ends 28 March], Damascus, Delhi, Dnepropetrovsk, Doha, Donetsk, Dubai, Dublin, Dushanbe, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kazan, Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil, Kuwait, Lagos, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London-Heathrow, London-Stansted, Lviv, Lyon, Madinah, Madrid, Manchester, Mashhad, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, New York–JFK, Nice, Nuremberg, Odessa, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pristina, Riga, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, Sana'a, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Sarajevo, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Simferopol, Singapore, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, St Petersburg, Stuttgart, Tabriz, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Tunis, Ufa, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Warsaw, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zürich
Turkuaz Airlines	Stuttgart
Turkmenistan Airlines	Ashgabat
Uzbekistan Airlines	Tashkent

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
ACT Airlines	Hong Kong, New York–JFK, Singapore, Tallinn
Cargolux	Luxembourg
KLM Cargo	Amsterdam
Kuzu Airlines Cargo	Amsterdam, Dubai, Kuwait, London-Gatwick
MNG Cargo	Frankfurt-Hahn, London-Luton, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tallinn, Tel-Aviv
Qatar Airways Cargo	Doha
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Algiers-Houari,Cairo,Casablanca,Almaty,Delhi-Indira Gandhi,Tbilisi,Tel-Aviv,Amman,Beirut,Damascus,Tripoli,Dubai,Tirana,Paris-Charles de Gaulle,Frankfurt-Main,Cologne-Bonn,Milan-Malpesa,Maastrict,Pristina,Madrid-Barajas,Zurich,London-Gatwick

Services

Free Wireless LAN is available at the international arrival area (after customs control) and in the international departure area (after passport control). There is an airport hotel, [2], connected to the terminal. Also, in 5 miles radius of the hotel, there is Radisson SAS, Marriott Renaissance, Holiday Inn Airport North, Four Points and Sheraton.

In the airport, there are two Starbucks outlets (one in arrivals and the other in the departure lounge after the passport control, near gate 218) and Gloria Jean's coffee shops among others, both in arrival and departure. At the departure, coffee shops are beyond passport control. There are three Burger King outlets. There is a unisex barber shop, on the mezzanine level of the departure concourse, before passport control. Pharmacy and Post office are located on the arrival level. There is a storage area at the arrivals level. All major car rental agencies are present at the arrivals. Hertz offers Gold Service. There are book shops and newspaper stands at the departure before and after passport control. International newspapers are available at those before and after passport control; English books are found at those after passport control. Istanbul's famous Gulluoglu baklava [3]is available at several outlets on the departures concourse after passport control.

This section requires expansion.

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 766,000 tonnes of load (cargo, freight and mail) and over 28.5 million passengers in the year 2008. 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 25 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 2010, 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]}

Atatürk shares traffic with Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, which is on the Anatolian (Asian) side of Istanbul, which had annual passenger traffic of just 4.3 million in 2008. The two airports both provide domestic and international service to the Istanbul area.

Below is the passenger data for Istanbul for the years 2002–2008:^[3]

Statistics

The 'total' column below exclude the number of transit passengers. For the year 2007, 2,706,614 transit passengers used Turkish airports, and 2,365,206 (87.4%) of this was through Istanbul Atatürk Airport. [4][5]

İstanbul Atatürk International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics

Year (months)	Domestic	International	Total	Total(incl. transit)**
2009 (first 9 months)*	8,676,082 (-2.3%)	13,582,616 (+5.8%)	22,258,698 (+2.5%)
2008 (all)	9,447,549 (-1.5%)	14,585,774 (+7.3%)	24,033,323 (+3.6%)	28,553,132 (+11.7%)
2007 (all)	9,595,923 (+5.5%)	13,600,306 (+11.7%)	23,196,229 (+9.1%)	25,561,435
2006 (all)	9,091,693 (+21.0%)	12,174,281 (+3.3%)	21,265,974 (+10.2%)
2005 (all)	7,512,282 (+38.3%)	11,781,487 (+15.9%)	19,293,769 (+23.7%)
2004 (all)	5,430,925 (+69.9%)	10,169,676 (+14.2%)	15,600,601 (+28.9)
2003 (all)	3,196,045 (+12.1%)	8,908,268 (+4.7%)	12,104,342 (+6.6%)
2002 (all)	2,851,487	8,506,204	11,357,691

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İstanbul Airport Load Statistics (cargo+freight+mail)

Year (months)	Load	Cargo only ***
2008 (all)	766,221 (+4.3%)	349,999 (+5.2%)
2007 (all)	734,820 (+14%)	332,753 (+13.7%)
2006 (all)	644,901 (+4.7%)	292,678 (+7.3%)
2005 (all)	615,909 (+7%)	272,735 (+3.1%)
2004 (all)	573,284 (+14%)	264,599 (+15.5%)
2003 (all)	502,692 (+4.7%)	229,076 (+8.4%)
2002 (all)	480,022 (---)	211,412 (+31.0%)

(*) Preliminary data (**) Estimate based on total transit volume of Turkish airports. (***) Link:[6] Source: DHMI.gov.tr^[4]

More statistics

• IST is a top-30 airport in terms of international passenger traffic. As of end of June 2009, it ranks 29th on Airports Council International list for the international passenger traffic in the last 12 months.

• For 2009, IST was ranked 26th, 23rd, 19th, 21st and 25th among the world airports by international passenger traffic category in February, March, April, May and June 2009 by the Airports Council International. It ranks 23rd by the same category in year-to-date ranking as of end of June 2009. It is currently one of the only three airports with positive growth in that category in ACI's top-30 list.

[ACI Euro Airport Statistics http://www.aci-europe.org/upload/_RANKS07.xls] [ACI latest statistics http://www.airports.org/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-1376_666_2__]

Access

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.^[5] 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 Etiler-Akmerkez. 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.^[6]
• Municipality Bus : Municipality buses also run to Taksim, Etiler and Kozyatağı. This is a slower but much cheaper alternative than Havaş.^[7]
• Car : The airport is accessible through the coastal road, D-100 international road and TEM (Trans-European Motorway).

Incidents and accidents

At the airport

Wikinews has related news: Major fire breaks out at Istanbul 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 and accompanying two Bombardier CL-215 fire-fighting planes which were hired two days previously by the Metropolitan Municipality.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

Wikinews has related news: AMC Airlines charter plane from Hurghada to Warsaw with 156 passengers on board belly lands in Instanbul - one hurt

• On 11 October 2007 a charter flight by Egypt's AMC Airlines, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (SU-BOY), made an emergency belly landing at the Atatürk International Airport while on route from Hurghada International Airport to Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport, overshooting the runway. There were no fatalities; there was one injury, and the plane was badly damaged.^[10]
• On October 4 2009 - Jat Airways Flight JU420, a Boeing 737-300 from Belgrade, overran the runway by about 50 meters stopping with all gear on soft ground. The plane carried 125 passengers and 6 crew on board. All 125 passengers and six crew members were evacuated safely.Aircraft was destroyed.

Involving aircraft arriving to and departing from the airport

• 3 March 1974 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981, which crashed in France due to explosive decompression, killing all 346 people aboard. The main cause was a design fault on the cargo doors of DC-10 aircraft, registered TC-JAV and named Ankara. Prior to the Tenerife airport disaster, it was the deadliest aircraft disaster in the world.
• On 10 September 1976, a Trident 3B on British Airways Flight 476, flying from London Heathrow to Istanbul collided in mid-air with an Inex Adria DC9-32 near Zagreb, Croatia, resulting in the 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision. All 54 passengers and 9 crew members on the BA aircraft died.
• On 16 January 1983, Turkish Airlines Flight 158, a Boeing 727-2F2 (registration TC-JBR, named Afyon) landed about 50 m (160 ft) short of the runway at Ankara Esenboğa Airport (ESB/LTAC) in driving snow, broke up and caught fire. 47 passengers died, all of the seven crew and 13 passengers survived the accident with injuries.^[11]
• On 8 January 2003 - Turkish Airlines Flight 634, an Avro RJ-100 (registration: TC-THG, named Konya) crashed while on a VOR/DME approach to runway 34 at Diyarbakir Airport (DIY/LTCC), Turkey. 75 of the 80 passengers and crew died.^[12]
• 25 February 2009 - Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737-800 from Istanbul, crashed on approach to Amsterdam Airport. The plane carried 128 passengers and 7 crew on board. Nine people have died, 86 passengers were injured, of whom six in critical condition.

Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (September 2008)

Appeared under the former name of Yeşilköy Airport in the film From Russia with Love.

Destination for the nonstop flight from New York in 1931 by Russell Boardman and John Polando in a modified Bellanca monoplane called the 'Cape Cod', which set a new nonstop distance record. Polando describes the flight in his autobiography Wings Over Istanbul.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} EAD Basic
2. ^ http://www.thy.com/en-INT/corporate/news/announcements/announcement.aspx?aid=4231
3. ^ İstatistikler
4. ^ Statistics
5. ^ Hafif raylı sistem
6. ^ Havaş
7. ^ İETT
8. ^ BBC News
9. ^ "Ariana A300 overruns while landing at Istanbul Ataturk". Flight International: p. 10. 2007-04-03. 
10. ^ "Plane catches fire during landing in Istanbul", Reuters, 11 October 2007. Link accessed 2007-10-11.
11. ^ http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19830116-1
12. ^ Aviation Safety Network report - January 8, 2003 crash

External links

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• Atatürk International Airport Official Homepage
• Current weather for LTBA at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for IST at Aviation Safety Network

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