Trabzon Airport
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Trabzon Airport ( Turkish Trabzon Havalimanı ) is a Turkish commercial airport with international classification near the city of Trabzon. It is operated by the State DHMI.
The airport was established in 1957 put into use and is now used exclusively civil after initial military use. It has a capacity of 3.9 million passengers per year and a tarmac airstrip, which is also equipped with an instrument landing system (ILS ). The apron has a size of 340 × 102 meters and can accommodate seven airliners.
Since the airport is designed for international flights and domestic flights, the terminal facilities are located separately for international and domestic traffic, as previously usual, in two buildings. Both buildings are due to modernization and expansion projects, which followed in the 1990s during a planned expansion of the airport and dragged on for several years, comparatively young.
The international terminal has a floor area of 9,710 square meters and has been operating since 1998. It has a capacity of 1.5 million passengers a year and has ten check- in counters, bars, restaurants, prayer rooms for Muslims and unlike the domestic flight terminal has a duty- free shop. A health service is located here.
The almost quite exactly ten years younger terminal for domestic flight operations has been in operation since late 2008. It is built a little more spacious and generous - the floor area is 14,035 square feet - and is also designed for a larger number of passengers ( two million a year). It has a total of 28 check- in counters and plenty of shops and bars. As in the international terminal here is a health service.
The airport assigned city of Trabzon is located about four to six kilometers to the west. They can be reached by taxi, private car or airport. Daily minibus connections with the eastern provinces of Rize and Artvin are available. Front of the terminal there is a parking lot for 385 vehicles.
The airport is currently connected on routes to numerous airlines with different objectives. The domestic air traffic is mainly served by Turkish Airlines and Pegasus Airlines, which partially to fly from here to Istanbul Ataturk and Sabiha Gökçen several times a day directly. AnadoluJet, a subsidiary of Turkish Airlines, also flies around a dozen times in a week to the Ankara airport. Also to Antalya and Adana flights are offered. Internationally, the German Dusseldorf is connected by Lufthansa and Germania with Trabzon and also also Baku of Azerbaijan Airlines and Tbilisi Georgian International Airlines fly by.