Esenboğa International Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Esenboğa International Airport
nativename = Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı
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IATA = ESB
ICAO = LTAC
type = Public
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operator = TAV. Airport Management
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location = Ankara
elevation-f = 3,125
elevation-m = 953
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r1-length-m = 3,750
r1-surface = Asphalt
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Esenboğa International Airport Airport codes|ESB|LTAC ( _tr. "Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı" or "Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı"), is an airport in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has been operating since 1955. The name of the airport comes from the village of Esenboğa (the g is silent), which literally means "healthy bull".

Location

The airport is located northeast of Ankara, 28 km from the center. Transportation to the city center is by taxi (around TRY 45 one way, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (approximately TRY 11 one way). The road between Esenboğa airport and the Ankara ring road was expanded during the summer of 2006, decreasing the driving time between the city center and the airport by several minutes.

Terminals

A combined domestic and international terminal has recently opened, on October 2006, following two years of construction works.

The New Domestic and International Terminals have the properties as set below:

* 168.000 m² area,
* 10.000.000 passenger/year capacity,
* 18 ea. passenger bridge,
* 105 check-in counters,
* 34 passport counters,
* Parking Facility with 123.000 m² area and 4,000 vehicle capacity

Alternate space shuttle landing site

Esenboğa Airport is one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle. [ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/facility/sts-els.htm List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org] ]

Airlines and destinations

*Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul)
*Atlasjet (Ercan, Istanbul-Atatürk, Siirt, Van)
*Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
*Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
*Bestair (Düsseldorf)
*Blue Wings (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Hannover)
*bmi (London-Heathrow)
*Condor Airlines (Stuttgart)
*Corendon Airlines (Brussels)
*Cyprus Turkish Airlines (Ercan, Frankfurt)
*Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart, Dortmund)
*Iran Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
*Lufthansa (Munich)
*Motor-Sich (Kiev-Boryspil, Simferopol)
*Onur Air (Amsterdam, Antalya, Diyarbakır, İzmir, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
*Pegasus Airlines (Diyarbakır, Dusseldorf, Ercan, Erzurum, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen,Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Trabzon, Van, Vienna)
**Pegasus Airlines operated by Izair (Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir)
*Tarhan Tower Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
*Turkish Airlines (Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, London-Heathrow, Munich, Nuremberg, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Vienna)
**Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet (Adana, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Antalya, Batman, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Hatay, Izmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kars, Malatya, Mardin, Muş, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Trabzon, Van)

External links

* [http://www.esenbogaairport.com/esben/index.php Airport's official website] en icon
*WAD|LTAC

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