Adana ÅžakirpaÅŸa Airport
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Adana Airport — commonly known as Adana Şakirpaşa Airport — is a
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airport located in
Adana Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...
. It served as the main commercial airport of
Cilicia Cilicia () is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Cilicia has a population ranging over six million, concentrated mostly at the Cilician plain (). The region inclu ...
region from 1937 to 2024.''2019 Passengers Statistics of Airports in Turkey''
at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
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, which opened on 10 August 2024, replaced ÅžakirpaÅŸa Airport as the regional airport. All commercial airline flights have been moved to the new airport, while ÅžakirpaÅŸa Airport is now used primarily for private travel,
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and air sports.


History

Adana Airport was constructed on farmland at the
ÅžakirpaÅŸa ÅžakirpaÅŸa () is a neighbourhood (''mahalle'') in the municipality and district of Seyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 11,108 (2022). It is 3 km west of the city centre of Adana. The neighborhood is situated south of the State r ...
area, 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.


Airlines and destinations

The last commercial airline passenger flight departed shortly after midnight on 11 August 2024. As of 12 August 2024, there are no commercial airline passenger flights at Adana Airport. There were 295 weekly departures to 24 routes from the Adana Airport during the high season, connecting the region to destinations in Turkey,
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. Ercan was the shortest route (40 min.) and
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was the longest route (4 hours 50 minutes). Routes to both airports in
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were among the busiest in Turkey, with 144 departures weekly, equating to almost half of the total flights.


Statistics


Passenger figures


Route statistics


Ground transportation


Buses and coaches

Adana Metropolitan Municipality local buses #135 and #159, run from the airport to the neighbourhoods of
Seyhan Seyhan is a Districts of Turkey, district-municipality in the Adana Province of Turkey. Its area is 444 km2, and its population is 795,012 (2022). It forms the core of the Adana urban area. Seyhan is home to 35 percent of the residents of Ada ...
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Çukurova Çukurova (), or the Cilician Plain (''Cilicia Pedias'' in antiquity), is a large fertile plain in the Cilicia region of southern Anatolia. The plain covers the easternmost areas of Mersin Province, southern and central Adana Province, western Os ...
and
Sarıçam Sarıçam is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 770 km2, and its population is 221,733 (2022). The southern section of the district is part of the Adana Urban Area. The district is located north of the YüreÄŸ ...
. 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. Bus #135 is an hourly service to Balcalı (
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). 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

ÅžakirpaÅŸa railway station ÅžakirpaÅŸa () is a neighbourhood (''mahalle'') in the municipality and district of Seyhan, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 11,108 (2022). It is 3 km west of the city centre of Adana. The neighborhood is situated south of the State r ...
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,http://www.tcdd.gov.tr/upload/Files/ContentFiles/2010/bolgesel/mersinadanamersin.htm Adana-Mersin Railway Line and fewer daily services to eastern stations of Adana;
Yüreğir Yüreğir () is a district-municipality of the Adana Province. It is the second most populated district of the province with a population of over 400 thousand, mostly concentrated on the east side of the Seyhan river, within the city of Adana. Man ...
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İncirlik İncirlik () is a town and former municipality in the Sarıçam district of Adana Province in southern Turkey, 8 km (5 mi) east of the centre of Adana. Its population is 15,763 (2022). Climate Governance İncirlik municipality ...
and Ceyhan. Also from the station, there are once daily trips to Osmaniye,
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