Istanbul AtatÃ¼rk Airport

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Ataturk Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA; Turkish Ataturk Uluslararası Havalimanı; formerly Yeşilköy ) is the largest international commercial airport in the Turkish city of Istanbul Istanbul- Sabiha Gökçen before. Named after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Airport handled in 2013 from about 51 million passengers, making it the fifth largest airport in Europe. Turkish Airlines uses the airport as a hub.

The Istanbul International Airport, which is to be built north of this on the Black Sea coast, will replace the airport Ataturk. The opening of the new giant airport ( handling up to 150 million passengers) is planned for 2019. At the latest by the end of 2020, the closure of the airport Ataturk is planned.

Terminal building

The airport has three terminals: an international (Terminal A), a national (Terminal B) and a cargo terminal (Terminal C). The new international terminal was opened after just two years of construction 2001 per year with a capacity of 20 million passengers. It is built on an area of over 250,000 m², including 224 check- in counters, 23 passenger boarding bridges, 11 baggage claim belts, 74 passport control desks and offers parking for 10,076 vehicles. The old international terminal was restructured to national domestic terminal, which provides more space for passengers. It has a capacity of 7.5 million passengers per year and is built on an area of 62,500 m². 108 check- in counters, nine passenger boarding bridges and seven Baggage carousels are available. Both terminals are connected to each other.

The terminals are operated since 2000 by the TAV Airports Holding. TAV has invested since 1998 600 million USD. 2005 TAV got the operating license for the airport, which was acquired in a tender for a record amount of USD three billion and represents the most expensive privatization project in Turkey, the Middle East, the Commonwealth countries and North Africa.

There are different plans for an extension of the international terminal in the eastern part of the airport by the demolition of old buildings and unhelpful. In addition, the construction of a new 06 /24 start and runway is planned parallel to the existing 06 /24 track. This could take all the traffic problems and also allow more capacity for landings and takeoffs then have to repair the existing railway. Another plan is to extend the current 05 /23 track, so that larger aircraft could fly to Istanbul, there are right now and used in the near future more and more larger aircraft (eg Airbus A380 or similar). However, the landing and runway plans depend on the decision of the military, as these areas include the Turkish army and the individual authorities must come to an acceptable decision.

In these terminals there are two Starbucks locations (both in arrival and departure area ) and Gloria Jean's cafes. In the departure area there is a Burger King, a hairdressing salon for men and women, several coffee shops, duty-free areas in the arrival and Abflugsbreich, a pharmacy and a post office. Many Autovermietungsgesellschafen are represented. Newsagents, jewelry stores and boutiques of well-known brands can also be found.

Airlines and destinations

Headquartered here Turkish Airlines flies from Istanbul from all major cities within Turkey, including ones Izmir, Ankara, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Adana, Antalya, Trabzon, Hatay, Malatya and Elazig. International flies the airline services to destinations from Istanbul, including New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Bangkok or Beijing. To this end, almost all the major cities are served in Europe and Germany from Istanbul Ataturk from. Other airlines such as Lufthansa, Swiss, Air France, Emirates, British Airways and KLM offer daily flights to Istanbul.

Location and Transport

The airport is located in the European part of the metropolis in Yeşilköy district, 24 km southwest of the city center.

There is a metro link to the airport through the underground line M1A, whose western terminus is the airport. This moves to the inner city in the European part to the Aksaray neighborhood. At the stations Merter, Bahçelievler and Ataköy can switch through the Metrobüs be reached, connecting Europe and Asia. In Zeytinburnu can be switched to the tram line T1, which further moves into the old town. In addition, the underground line M1B and a light rail line from the M1A branches. The curve and the Central Bus Station is Esenler for long distance service.
Airport Shuttle Service: this service is carried out by the Havaş and runs every 30 minutes in the boroughs of Bakırkoy, Yenikapı, Aksaray, Taksim Square, hourly to Kozyatağı ( on the Asian side ) and a shopping center Akmerkez in Etiler district.
By car the airport via the E5 ( D100) city highway and the (Trans -European Motorway ) TEM motorway can be reached.
The city buses also every five to ten minutes to the airport or from the airport, but this is a slow alternative.

Statistics

Ataturk Airport is larger problems in the future against because passenger numbers have almost doubled in the last five years, but there are because of the dense development around the airport no space for expansion ready. The number of national passengers has even quadrupled. The capacity of the airport were barely adequate with 18 million international passengers and 11 million domestic passengers in 2009. In addition, nearly 830,000 tons of cargo were handled ( cargo, freight and mail). It is expected that Ataturk in 2015 will have an annual passenger volume of 25 million international passengers and 25 million domestic passengers. These capacities can not wear the airport in its current state. Express trains between Ankara and Istanbul and the completion of other sections of motorway, connecting Istanbul to other cities such as Bursa, Antalya or Izmir would help in lowering the passenger traffic through the airport Atatürk. The other airport on the Asian side of the city Sabiha Gökçen Airport, which has about 11 million passengers in far greater capacity, it would have to be served. To create additional interchanges in Istanbul, is a third airport, 60 kilometers northwest of the city, in planning; it should cost the equivalent of 7 billion euros and a capacity of 90 - have 150 million passengers.

(*) Provisional figures ( **) ratings are based on the total transit advent of Turkish airports.

Incidents

On 24 May 2006 a major fire destroyed large parts of the cargo area of the airport. The fire broke out probably in a textile warehouse and spread to large parts of the cargo area above. Among other aircraft being used for fire fighting. Three people suffered smoke inhalation. The passenger terminal has not been affected due to the distance to the cargo area and the favorable wind direction. There was property damage of approximately 40 million euros.
On 23 March 2007, an Airbus A300 came of Ariana Afghan Airlines from when landing from the runway and was seriously damaged. The 50 passengers were able to leave the aircraft uninjured.
October 11, 2007 was forced to land a McDonnell Douglas MD -83 of the Egyptian airline AMC Airlines. The plane was on its way from Hurghada to Warsaw. She made it a controlled crash landing and went off the runway. In the incident, a passenger was injured.

Trivia

Under its old name Yeşilköy Airport is the airport one of the venues of the James Bond film From Russia with Love, which was filmed in Istanbul.

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