Zonguldak Airport

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The Zonguldak Airport ( IATA code: ONQ, ICAO code: LTAS ) is located in the west of the Turkish Black Sea region in the province of Zonguldak Çaycuma district, town Saltukova.

History

Construction began in 1991, but due to funding problems, the airport was only eight years later, in 1999, completed. In 2002, the airport was officially closed because until then no aircraft movements had taken place. Five years later, in 2007, the airport of the company Zonguldak Özel Sivil Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. Havacilik ( ZONHAV ) was leased and reopened. The first commercial flight to Zonguldak took place on 21 July 2009 a chartered by the tour operator Oger Tours Boeing 737-700 of the German airline Germania under flight number ST6310 packed with 148 passengers from Dusseldorf instead.

Equipment

The runway ( runway 18 /36) is 1,800 m long, 30m wide and made of concrete. The airport has a common terminal for departure and arrival, and has a capacity for 500,000 passengers per year.

Traffic

International Airport, the German airline Germania served exclusively in the high season from tour operators Oger Tours with chartered Boeing 737-700 every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from Dusseldorf and Thursdays from Dortmund. National 72 every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Ankara, Istanbul- Sabiha Gökçen and Trabzon served the airport only by the airline Borajet with aircraft of type ATR.

Trivia

• Thus, the Zonguldak Airport by the Turkish aviation authority Devlet Hava Meydanları İşletmesi got the approval, had the west of the runways 18/36 located 235 m high mountain Bostancılar which is called by the locals also Keleş be entbaumt and partially removed.