Adana Şakirpaşa Airport

Adana Airport

Adana Havalimanı
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerRepublic of Turkey
OperatorGeneral Directorate of State Airports (DHMİ)
ServesAdana, Mersin, Osmaniye
LocationAdana, Turkey
Opened1937; 86 years ago (1937)
Focus city forPegasus Airlines
Elevation AMSL65 ft / 20 m
Coordinates36°58′55″N 035°16′49″E / 36.98194°N 35.28028°E / 36.98194; 35.28028
Websiteadana.dhmi.gov.tr
Map
ADA is located in Turkey
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Location of airport in Turkey
ADA is located in Europe
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 2,750 9,022 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers5,054,183 Decrease -10.0%
Cargo (tons)2,436 Decrease -2.0%
Aircraft movements40,680 Decrease -1.0%[1]
Sources: DHMİ[2] and DAFIF[3][4]

Adana Airport or Adana Şakirpaşa Airport (Turkish: Adana Havalimanı) (IATA: ADA, ICAO: LTAF) is an international airport located in Adana, Turkey. The airport serves mainly to Cilicia region and in a lesser extent to the provinces surrounding Cilicia, due to its frequent domestic flight schedule and several flights to international destinations. With 5.1 million passengers in 2019,[5] it is the sixth-busiest airport in Turkey. Opened in 1937, Şakirpaşa Airport is the oldest airport in Turkey that is still in public service.

History

Adana Airport was constructed on farmland at the Şakirpaşa area, 2.3 km west of the historical city centre. It was opened to service as a civil-military airport in 1937, and became a full civil airport in 1956.

Passenger traffic at Adana Airport has doubled since 2011, hitting a record in 2018 with 5,630,674 passengers.[6] Due to an economical downturn in Turkey, the total number of passengers dropped for the first time in 10 years in 2019 with a 10 percent decrease. There are now 436 weekly departures to 23 routes from the airport, connecting the region to 8 destinations in Turkey, 11 in Germany, 3 in the Middle East and one in N.Cyprus. Ercan is the shortest route (40 min.) and Hamburg is the longest route (4 hours). Routes to both airports in Istanbul are among the busiest in Turkey, with 201 departures weekly, almost half of the total flights.

In February 2023, the airport was closed due to runway damage as a result of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.[7]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Adana Şakirpaşa Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo[8]
AnadoluJet Ankara, Beirut,[9] Ercan, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Seasonal: Erbil[10]
Corendon Airlines[11] Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn,[12] Düsseldorf, Hannover,[12] Nuremberg[12]
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf,[13] Hamburg,[14] Stuttgart[15]
Freebird Airlines Seasonal Charter: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Pegasus Airlines Antalya, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, İzmir, Trabzon, Van
Seasonal: Bodrum, Cologne/Bonn, Dalaman, Tabriz, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Qatar Airways Seasonal: Doha[16]
SunExpress[17] Antalya, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, İzmir
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Berlin,[18] Brussels, Hannover, London–Stansted (begins 24 May 2024),[19] Munich, Stuttgart
Saudia Seasonal: Jeddah
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Seasonal: Antalya, Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Jeddah, Medina, Stuttgart, Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Statistics

ADA Destinations

Passenger figures

Domestic Terminal
Check-in counters
Runway
Annual passenger traffic at ADA airport. See Wikidata query.
Adana Şakirpaşa Airport passenger traffic statistics
Year Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2019 4,309,453 Decrease -13% 744,730 Increase 6% 5,054,183 Decrease -10%
2018 4,929,255 Decrease -0.6% 701,419 Increase 8.0% 5,630,674 Increase 0.4%
2017 4,960,627 Increase 2.0% 649,549 Decrease -9.0% 5,610,176 Increase 0.4%
2016 4,884,395 Increase 7.0% 710,235 Decrease -2.0% 5,594,630 Increase 5.0%
2015 4,643,199 Increase 14.0% 726,061 Increase 15.0% 5,369,260 Increase 15.0%
2014 4,057,291 Increase 8.0% 630,203 Increase 12.0% 4,687,494 Increase 9.0%
2013 3,754,227 Increase 20.0% 561,551 Decrease -11.0% 4,315,778 Increase 15.0%
2012 3,136,143 Increase 18.0% 628,014 Increase 7.0% 3,764,157 Increase 16.0%
2011 2,651,873 Increase 9.7% 589,094 Increase 39.1% 3,240,967 Increase 14.1%
2010 2,417,630 Increase 17% 423,540 Increase 2% 2,841,170 Increase 14.0%

Route statistics

Direct routes from Adana Airport[20]
City Airport Weekly departures
(August 2022) 		Airlines
Istanbul (Pendik) Sabiha Gökçen Airport 104 Pegasus Airlines, AnadoluJet
Istanbul (Arnavutköy) Istanbul Airport 97 Turkish Airlines
Antalya Antalya Airport 47 Pegasus Airlines, SunExpress, Turkish Airlines
Northern Cyprus North Nicosia Ercan Airport 35 AnadoluJet, Pegasus Airlines
İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport 33 Pegasus Airlines, SunExpress
Ankara Ankara Esenboğa Airport 31 AnadoluJet
Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport 13 AnadoluJet, Pegasus Airlines
Bodrum Milas–Bodrum Airport 11 Pegasus Airlines
Cologne/Bonn Cologne Bonn Airport 9 SunExpress, Pegasus Airlines
Trabzon Trabzon Airport 7 Pegasus Airlines
Van Ferit Melen Airport 7 Pegasus Airlines
Erbil Erbil International Airport 5 Turkish Airlines
Berlin Berlin Brandenburg Airport 5 Turkish Airlines
Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport 4 Turkish Airlines
Stuttgart Stuttgart Airport 4 SunExpress
Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Airport 3 SunExpress, Turkish Airlines
Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport 1 SunExpress
Hamburg Hamburg Airport 1 Turkish Airlines
Hannover Hannover Airport 1 SunExpress
Munich Munich Airport 1 SunExpress
Nuremberg Nuremberg Airport 1 Corendon Airlines

Ground transportation

Local buses/minibuses, coaches, airline shuttles, trains and taxi serve ground transportation to or close to the airport.

Buses and coaches

Line Destination
 135  Balcalı
 159  Çukurova
 125  Beyceli
 401-407  Taşköprü/Ceyhan
 Havaş  Mersin

Adana Metropolitan Municipality local buses #135 and #159, run from the airport to the neighbourhoods of Seyhan, Çukurova and Sarıçam. Bus #159 is a 35-minute interval service that connects airport to the old town, metro (Vilayet station), Central railway station, and routes further north, ending in Kurttepe, close to the lake.[21] Bus #135 is an hourly service to Balcalı (Çukurova University).[22]

Several local buses and minibuses that run east–west on the D400 state road, stop at the Airport intersection, 800 metres north of the airport terminals.

Coach transport to the provinces surrounding Cilicia, run from the Central Coach Terminal, 3.9 km west of the airport entrance. Coach companies' shuttle services from the city centre to the Central Coach Terminal have stops at the Airport Intersection on the D400 state road.

Rail

Şakirpaşa railway station is 1.9 kilometres' walking distance to the airport terminals, and it is located one block north of the D400 state road. There are frequent train services to Mersin Central, Tarsus and Adana Central stations,[23] and fewer daily services to eastern stations of Adana; Yüreğir, İncirlik and Ceyhan. Also from the station, there are once daily trips to Osmaniye, İskenderun, İslahiye, Karaman and Niğde.

Accidents and incidents

References

  1. ^ "Devlet Hava Meydanları İşletmesi Genel Müdürlüğü". DHMI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  2. ^ (in Turkish) Adana Hava Limanı Archived 2007-12-04 at the Wayback Machine at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
  3. ^ "Airport information for LTAF". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.{cite web}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  4. ^ Airport information for LTAF at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  5. ^ (in Turkish) 2019 Passengers Statistics of Airports in Turkey Archived 2015-06-28 at the Wayback Machine at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
  6. ^ "Devlet Hava Meydanları İşletmesi Genel Müdürlüğü". Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
  7. ^ "Turkey and Syria earthquakes: Travel warnings, what tourists need to know and where to donate". euronews. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Aeroflot Adds Moscow - Adana Service From June 2023". AeroRoutes. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  9. ^ Liu, Jim (6 October 2020). "Anadolu Jet adds Adana – Beirut service from mid-Oct 2020". routesonline.com.
  10. ^ "New Route: Adana-Erbil!". AnadoluJet. 4 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Flights to Izmir". corendonairlines.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  12. ^ a b c Liu, Jim (27 January 2020). "Corendon Airlines S20 Network expansion". routesonline.com.
  13. ^ "Eurowings fliegt ab Deutschland, Österreich und Tschechien neue Ziele an". 22 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Eurowings Adds New Turkish Routes in NS23".
  15. ^ "Eurowings flies to more destinations in summer 2022 than ever before".
  16. ^ "Qatar Airways adds Adana service from Nov 2017". routesonline. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  17. ^ "SunExpress flight connections 04/2022 - 10/2022" (PDF).
  18. ^ "SunExpress NS23 Network Additions – 30OCT22".
  19. ^ https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230925-xqns24
  20. ^ "Statistics". Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  21. ^ http://www.adana.bel.tr/otobus-saatleri/entry/2563/ Local Bus #159
  22. ^ http://www.adana.bel.tr/otobus-saatleri/entry/2552/ Local Bus #135
  23. ^ http://www.tcdd.gov.tr/upload/Files/ContentFiles/2010/bolgesel/mersinadanamersin.htm Adana-Mersin Railway Line

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