Esenboğa International Airport Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı
IATA: ESB - ICAO: LTAC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		TAV. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many The ICAO (ˌaɪˌkeɪˈoʊ Airport code or location indicator is a four-letter Alphanumeric Code designating each airport around Airport Management
Serves		Ankara
Elevation AMSL		3,125 ft (953 m)
Coordinates		40°07′41″N, 32°59′42″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
03R/21L	12,303	3,750	Asphalt
03L/21R	12,303	3,750	Asphalt

The new Ankara International Airport

The new Ankara International Airport

Esenboğa International Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) (Turkish: 'Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı or Esenboğa Uluslararası Havalimanı'), is an airport in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A runway ( RWY) is a strip of land on an Airport, on which Aircraft can take off and land. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International Asphalt ( is a sticky black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude Petroleums and in some natural deposits sometimes termed asphaltum An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many The ICAO (ˌaɪˌkeɪˈoʊ Airport code or location indicator is a four-letter Alphanumeric Code designating each airport around Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. An airport is a location where Aircraft such as airplanes, Helicopters and blimps take off and land Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches It has been operating since 1955. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) 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. Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. 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. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States ^[1]

Airlines and destinations

• Royal Jordanian Airlines (Amman)(2008)
• Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul)
• Atlasjet (Ercan, Istanbul-Atatürk, Siirt, Van)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
• Bestair (Düsseldorf)
• Blue Wings (Düsseldorf)
• bmi (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, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
• 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 (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

• Airport's official website (English)
• Airport information for LTAC at World Aero Data

Notes

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