ESENBOğA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

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'Esenboğa International Airport' (), 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".

Contents
Location
Terminals
Alternate space shuttle landing site
Airlines and destinations
External links
Notes

Location


The airport is located northeast of Ankara, 28 km from the center. Transportation to the city center is by taxi (around $35 one way, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (approximately $9 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 Ankara International Airport

The new Ankara International Airport

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.[1]

Airlines and destinations



Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul)

Atlasjet (Ercan, Istanbul-Atatürk, Siirt, Van)

Austrian (Vienna)

Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)

Bestair (Düsseldorf)

Blue Wings (Düsseldorf)

British Airways


★ operated by BMED (Damascus, Khartoum, London-Heathrow)

Condor Airlines (Stuttgart)

Corendon Airlines (Brussels)

Cyprus Turkish Airlines (Ercan, Frankfurt)

Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)

Iran Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)

Lufthansa (Munich)

Motor-Sich (Kiev-Boryspil, Simferopol)

Onur Air (Amsterdam, Antalya, Diyarbakır, İzmir)

Pegasus Airlines (Diyarbakır, Dusseldorf, Ercan, Erzurum, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Trabzon, Van, Vienna)


Pegasus Airlines operated by Izair (Antalya, Balikesir, Bodrum, Izmir)

Tarhan Tower Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)

Turkish Airlines (Adana, Adıyaman, Agri, Amsterdam, Antalya, Batman, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bodrum, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Düsseldorf, Elazığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Hamburg, Hanover, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kars, London-Heathrow, Malatya, Mardin, Munich, Mus, Nuremberg, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zurich)

External links



Official Site (English)


Notes


1. List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org


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