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Ataturk Airport
Airport Directory » Turkey » Istanbul » Ataturk AirportAtatürk International Airport (once Yeşilköy International Airport) (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA) (Turkish: Atatürk Uluslararası Havalimanı) is the leading international airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Located in Yeşilköy, on the European side of the town, it is 15 kilometre (nine mi) southwestward of the town center. The airport is named in honour of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the establisher and the 1st president of the Republic of Turkey. With judged rider traffic of 26 million for the yr 2008, it is projected to be amongst the top 40 airports in the world in terms of aggregative rider traffic.
Terminals
There are 3 depots, 1 international (Terminal A), 1 domestic (Terminal B) and 1 freight depot (Terminal C). Inaugurated in 2001, the international depot is an efficient and modern depot. After the new depot opened, domestic voyages have been travel to the old international depot. Despite its 70's project, this new domestic depot is able to deal more riders than the more modern but little previous domestic depot.
The airport depots have been functioned by TAV (Tepe-Akfen-Ventures) since January 2000. TAV has put US$600 million since 1998. In 2005 TAV won the grant understanding to function Atatürk for 15.5 yr at a enter interrupting sum of money of $3 billion, which also corresponds the highest fig for such a privatisation labor in Turkey, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Commonwealth of Independent States and North Africa.
There is also a labor to spread out the international depot by pulverising the unuseful installation constructions on the east of the international depot. When the international depot is spread out, some of the jet plane fashions shall be go forth to the domestic help depot which are on the due west of the international depot, tied to domestic help depot. Also there is a architectural plan to construct another landing track parallel to landing track 06/24, so when the original landing track 06/24 is under fix, this landing track shall be able to manage the traffic without anybody job. But to work on this task, the armed forces district is a fact of talk between the dominances as the infinite for new landing track belongs to armed forces. Also there are architectural plans to spread out the length of the landing track 06/24 as good, by this style, landing track shall be able to deal bigger aircrafts as most air hose set about to wing to Istanbul with bigger aircrafts.
Traffic
Atatürk Airport still human faces capacity issues; it ranks someplace between 35th and 40th in the world by both freight and rider traffic, deal over 730,000 metric ton of burden (load, cargo and get off) and over 25 million riders in the yr 2007. The aggregative figure of riders has duplicate in the past 5 yr, and domestic traffic has about quadrupled (see statistics subdivision beneath). Its valued capacity of 14 million international riders per yr and 10 million domestic riders per yr was just sufficient for the claim in 2007. The Istanbul greater metropolitan area is anticipated to have a claim of 25 million international riders and 25 million domestic riders each year by the yr 2015. However, unveiling of high velocity railroad train between Ankara and Istanbul in 2010, and pass completion of the building of the intercity main road relating Istanbul to other towns (to Bursa, İzmir, Antalya and the Black Sea Speedway) may assist diminish this claim.
Atatürk percentages traffic with Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, which is on the Anatolian (Asian) side of Istanbul, which had one-year rider traffic of merely 3.7 million in 2007. The 2 airports both furnish domestic and international service to the Istanbul area .
Below is the rider informations for Istanbul for the yr 2002-2007:
Statistics
(The 'aggregative' column beneath take out the figure of theodolite riders. For the yr 2007, 2,706,614 theodolite riders used Turkish airports, and 2,365,206 (87.4%) of this was through Istanbul Atatürk Airport.
| Year (calendar month) | Domestic | International | Total | Total(incl. theodolite)** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 (all) * | 9,447,549 (-1.5%) | 14,585,774 (+7.3%) | 24,033,323 (+3.6%) | |
| 2007 (all) | 9,595,923 (+5.5%) | 13,600,306 (+11.7%) | 23,196,229 (+9.1%) | 25,561,435 |
| 2006 (all) | 9,091,693 (+21.0%) | 12,174,281 (+3.3%) | 21,265,974 (+10.2%) | |
| 2005 (all) | 7,512,282 (+38.3%) | 11,781,487 (+15.9%) | 19,293,769 (+23.7%) | |
| 2004 (all) | 5,430,925 (+69.9%) | 10,169,676 (+14.2%) | 15,600,601 (+28.9) | |
| 2003 (all) | 3,196,045 (+12.1%) | 8,908,268 (+4.7%) | 12,104,342 (+6.6%) | |
| 2002 (all) | 2,851,487 | 8,506,204 | 11,357,691 |
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| Year (calendar month) | Load | Cargo only *** |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 (all) * | 766,221 (+4.3%) | 349,999 (+5.2%) |
| 2007 (all)* | 734,820 (+14%) | 332,753 (+13.7%) |
| 2006 (all) | 644,901 (+4.7%) | 292,678 (+7.3%) |
| 2005 (all) | 615,909 (+7%) | 272,735 (+3.1%) |
| 2004 (all) | 573,284 (+14%) | 264,599 (+15.5%) |
| 2003 (all) | 502,692 (+4.7%) | 229,076 (+8.4%) |
| 2002 (all) | 480,022 (---) | 211,412 (+31.0%) |
(*) Preliminary informations (**) Estimate ground on aggregative theodolite volume of Turkish airports. (***) Link:
More statistics
- IST was ranked 30th amongst the world airports by International Freight Traffic in April 2007, and 26th by International Passenger Traffic in February 2009 by the Airports Council International.
Services
Free Wireless LAN is available at the international reaching area (after usages command) and in the international going area (after recommendation command). There is an airport hotel, , tied to the depot. Also, in five land mile r of the hotel, there is Radisson SAS, Marriott Renaissance, Holiday Inn Airport North, Four Points and Sheraton.
In the airport, there are 2 Starbucks mercantile establishments (1 in arrivals and the other in the departure lounge after the recommendation command, near entrance 218) and Gloria Jean's coffee stores amongst others, both in reaching and going. At the going, coffee stores are beyond recommendation command. There are 3 Burger King mercantile establishments. There is a unisex barber store, on the mezzanine floor stage of the going concourse, before recommendation command. Pharmacy and Post business office are turn up on the reaching stage. There is a storage area at the arrivals stage. All major auto renting offices are present at the reaches. Hertz offers Gold Service. There are book stores and paper stand up at the going away before and after recommendation command. International papers are available at those before and after recommendation command; English books are constitute at those after recommendation command. Istanbul's famous Gulluoglu baklava is available at several retail store on the going concourse after recommendation command.
Access
There are several fashions to move between Atatürk International Airport and the town centre.
- Light Rail Service : Light rail service is between Aksaray and Atatürk International Airport. The line goes through some major divisions of the European side of the town; including the intercity bus depot. The LRT takes the riders to Aksaray in 30-35 min.. The come close cost is 0.75 euros one-way.
- Airport Shuttle Service : The shuttle services are functioned by Havaş, which is 1 of the major land deal corporations within Turkey. The coaches run half-hourly to Bakırköy, Yenikapı, Aksaray, Taksim Square, hourly to Kozyatağı (on the Anatolian side), two-hourly to Etiler-Akmerkez. Also, there is a fast ferry depot in Bakırköy which links the depot to Bostancı and Kadıköy. Havaş jitneys run between the airport and the fast ferry depot consorting to the going and arrivals of the ferries.
- Municipality Bus : Municipality jitneys also ply to Taksim, Etiler and Kozyatağı. This is a slower but much inexpensive choice than Havaş.
- Car : The airport is accessible through the coastal route, D-100 international route and TEM (Trans-European Motorway).
Incidents and accidents
At the airport
- 2006 fire: At approximately three:30 p.m. (local summertime clip, GMT+3) on May 24, 2006, a fire break out in the freight depot (Terminal C) construction, approximately 1 kilometer off from the international and domestic depot constructions, wallowing clouds of black fume and pressuring the suspension of some air traffic. Local functionaries have reportedly assigned the fire to sets off from a soldering atomic number 26. Three individuals were do by for fume inspiration. The fire was under command after 90 min. of work by firemen and going with 2 Bombardier CL-215 fire-fighting airplanes which were engaged 2 solar days antecedently by the Metropolitan Municipality.
- On 23 March 2007 an Ariana Afghan Airlines Airbus A300B4 (YA-BAD) after a voyage from Kabul via Ankara, district at Atatürk International Airport, infested the landing track and came to a hold resting on its right wing. The condition at the clip was poor with rainfall and gusting airs current. As of 2007 the aircraft was being take down.
- On 11 October 2007 a charter voyage by Egypt's AMC Airlines, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (SU-BOY), do an emergency venter districting at the Atatürk International Airport while on path from Hurghada International Airport to Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport, overshooting the landing track. There were no fatalities; there was 1 harm, and the airplane was severely damaged.
Involving aircraft getting to and digressing from the airport
- Three March 1974 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981, which crashed in France due to explosive decompression, assassination all 346 mortals aboard. The independent do was a project mistake on the cargo door of DC-10 aircraft, registered TC-JAV and named Ankara. Prior to the Tenerife airport calamity, it was the deadliest aircraft catastrophe in the world.
- On ten September 1976, a Trident 3B on British Airways Flight 476, winging from London Heathrow to Istanbul clashed in mid-air with an Inex Adria DC9-32 near Zagreb, Croatia, ensuing in the 1976 Zagreb mid-air hit. All 54 riders and nine crew member on the BA aircraft expired.
- On 16 January 1983, Turkish Airlines Flight 158, a Boeing 727-2F2 (enrolment TC-JBR, named Afyon) district approximately 50 m (160 foot) short of the landing track at Ankara Esenboğa Airport (ESB/LTAC) in driving snowfall, break up and catch fire. 47 riders expired, all of the 7 crew and 13 riders lived the accident with harms.
- On eight January 2003 - Turkish Airlines Flight 634, an Avro RJ-100 (enrolment: TC-THG, named Konya) crashed while on a VOR/DME draw close to landing track 34 at Diyarbakir Airport (DIY/LTCC), Turkey. 75 of the 80 riders and crew expired.
- 25 February 2009 - Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737-800 from Istanbul, crashed on draw close to Amsterdam Airport. The aeroplane transported 128 riders and seven crew on board. Nine mortals have buy the farm, 86 riders were wound, of whom 6 in critical status.
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