Ankara Esenboğa Airport

Ankara Esenboğa Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) (Turkish: Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı) is the international airport of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has been operating since 1955. In 2017, the airport has served more than 15 million passengers in total, 13 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranked 4th in terms of total passenger traffic (after Atatürk Airport, Antalya Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport), 3rd in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport) among airports in Turkey.[3]

Ankara Esenboğa Airport

Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGeneral Directorate of State Airports (DHMİ)
OperatorTAV Airports
ServesAnkara, Turkey
Opened1955
Hub for
Elevation AMSL3,125 ft / 953 m
Coordinates40°07′41″N 032°59′42″E
Websitewww.esenbogaairport.com
Map
ESB
Location within Turkey
ESB
ESB (Europe)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
03R/21L 3,750 12,303 Asphalt
03L/21R 3,750 12,303 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers15,845,878
Passenger change 16–1721%
Aircraft movements117,820
Movements change 16–1712%
Source: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe[2]

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 90 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 Buqa, 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." In 2020, Esenboğa Airport was awarded as the best European airport with a capacity of 15 – 25 million passengers by Airports 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]

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.[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.

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
Interior view
Interior view
AirlinesDestinations
AnadoluJet[9] Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Amsterdam, Antalya, Baku, Batman, Bingöl, Bodrum, Bursa, Çanakkale, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Edremit, Elazığ, Ercan, Erzincan, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Gazipaşa, Hakkari, Hatay, Iğdır, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kars, Malatya, Mardin, Muş, Ordu–Giresun, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Siirt, Şırnak, Tbilisi, Trabzon, Van, Vienna
Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Hamburg, Hannover, Jeddah, London–Stansted, Medina, Moscow–Vnukovo, Munich, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stuttgart
Ariana Afghan Airlines Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif[10]
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku
Buta Airways Baku[11]
Corendon Airlines[12] Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 27 June 2021), Basel/Mulhouse (begins 24 June 2021), Berlin (begins 26 June 2021), Bremen (begins 29 June 2021),[13] Cologne/Bonn,[14] Düsseldorf (begins 16 May 2021),[15] Frankfurt (begins 25 June 2021), Hamburg (begins 24 June 2021), Hannover,[14] Munich (begins 24 June 2021), Münster/Osnabrück (begins 25 June 2021), Nuremberg,[14] Stuttgart (begins 26 June 2021), Vienna (begins 1 July 2021)
Fly Baghdad Baghdad, Erbil
Iran Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Iraqi Airways Baghdad
Kam Air Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif[16]
Mahan Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Pegasus Airlines Amman–Queen Alia, Baku,[17] Bodrum, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Ercan, Hamburg,[18] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kiev–Boryspil,[19] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[20] Stuttgart
Qatar Airways Doha
Saudia Jeddah, Medina
SunExpress[21] Düsseldorf,[22] Frankfurt, Munich[23]
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn,[24] Hamburg, London–Luton, Stuttgart, Vienna, Zürich
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev–Boryspil
UR Airlines Baghdad[25]

Statistics

Passengers
Ankara Esenboğa International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics[3]
Year Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2019 11,417,759 21% 2,275,195 1% 13,692,954 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 11,554,882 9% 1,488,095 4% 13,042,977 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 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

Movements
Ankara Esenboğa International Airport Aircraft Movement Statistics
Year Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2015 82,852 5% 15,758 0.3% 98,610 4%
2014 78,712 2% 15,706 6% 94,421 2%
2013 80,107 16% 16,711 1% 96,818 13%
2012 69,335 3% 16,548 7% 85,883 4%
2011 67,513 14% 15,452 7% 82,965 12%
2010 59,509 18% 14,420 18% 73,929 18%
2009 50,347 4% 12,273 15% 62,620 0.4%
2008 48,463 2% 14,396 12% 62,859 2%
2007 47,578 16,331 63,909

Other facilities

Aviation accidents and incidents at or near the airport

Other airports in Ankara

There are three military airports in Ankara as follows:

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

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