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Esenboga Airport
Airport Directory » Turkey » Ankara » Esenboga AirportEsenboğa International Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) (Turkish: 'Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı or Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı'), is an airport in Ankara, the capital town of Turkey. It has been functioning since 1955. The name of the airport come up from the small town of Esenboğa (the g is silent), which literally averages "healthy bull". In 2008, ESB assisted 5,692,133 riders, 4,444,311 of which were domestic riders. It ranked third in terms of aggregative rider traffic, second in terms of domestic traffic and seventh in terms of international traffic amongst airports in Turkey.
Location
The airport is turn up nor'-east of Ankara, 28 kilometre from the centre. Transportation to the town centre is by cab (around TRY 45 one fashion, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (about TRY 11 one fashion). The route between Esenboğa airport and the Ankara bypass was spread out during the summertime of 2006, diminishing the driving clip between the town centre and the airport by several min..
Terminals
A combined domestic and international depot has late opened, on October 2006, coming after 2 yr of building works.
The New Domestic and International Terminals have the belongings as lay beneath:
- 168.000 m² area ,
- 10.000.000 rider/yr capacity,
- 18 ea. rider span,
- 105 check-in counters,
- 34 recommendation counters,
- Parking Facility with 123.000 m² area and 4,000 vehicle capacity
Alternate space shuttle districting location
Esenboğa Airport has been denominated as 1 of the emergency districting locations for NASA's Space Shuttle.
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