Ankara Esenboğa Airport ( tr, Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı) is the

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Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

, the capital city of

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. It has been operating since 1955. In 2017, the airport has served more than 15 million passengers in total, 13 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranked 4th in terms of total passenger traffic (after

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and

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), 3rd in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport) among airports in Turkey.

Overview

The airport is located northeast of

, from the city center. The airport is connected with Kızılay (the city center) and Ankara Intercity Bus Terminal (Turkish: Ankara Şehirlerarası Terminal İşletmesi, AŞTİ) by EGO city bus number 442 (from 6 am to 11pm). Transportation to the city center is also by taxi (around TRY 90 one way, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (approximately TRY 12,5 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. The name of the airport comes from the village of Esenboğa (the ğ is silent), which literally means "Windflowing Bull" or "Serene Bull", the modernized form of Isen Buqa, the name of a Turkic

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in the army of

Timur Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...

who settled his troops here during the

Battle of Ankara The Battle of Ankara or Angora was fought on 20 July 1402 at the Çubuk plain near Ankara, between the forces of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I and the Emir of the Timurid Empire, Timur. The battle was a major victory for Timur, and it led to the ...

in 1402. Esenboğa International Airport was awarded as the best airport in Europe by ACI Europe (

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) and the award presented to airport officials on 17 June 2009 in Manchester. The award is given in 4 categories every year and Esenboğa was in 5–10 million per annum category. It is the first time an ACI award was granted to a Turkish Airport. According to ACI-Europe, "As with number of the top candidates in this category, the airport excels in all the keys areas of operations, however the judges singled it out for its work in the area of environmental innovation, securing an incredible 25% energy savings stemming from its recycling of exhaust gases to power its air conditioning plants." In 2020, Esenboğa Airport was awarded as the best European airport with a capacity of 15 – 25 million passengers by

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. A new parallel runway is under construction to the east of the terminal building. Upon the completion, the current runway 03R/21L will be resigned as 03C/21C and the new runway will receive the latter's former designation.

Terminals

Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal constructed under "Build-Operate-Transfer" model has been completed within a record time; a year earlier than the committed completion date. Esenboga Airport Domestic and International Terminal, which went into operation on October 16, 2006 with a capacity of 10 million passengers, are spread over a 182 thousand m2 area. A new general aviation terminal with area has been opened in January 2012 to service private and business jets. The New Domestic and International Terminals, opened in 2006, feature area, 10,000,000 passenger/year capacity, 18 ea. passenger bridges, 105 check-in counters, 34 passport counters, a parking facility with area and 4,000 vehicles capacity.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Ankara Esenboğa Airport:

Statistics

Passengers

Movements

Other facilities

* The airport has the head office of

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. * Esenboğa Airport was designated as one of the emergency landing sites for

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Aviation accidents and incidents at or near the airport

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* Turkish Airlines Flight 835 * 1964 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash *

1979 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash The 1979 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash occurred on December 23, 1979, when a Turkish Airlines Fokker F28, Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000 airliner, registration TC-JAT, named ''Trabzon'', on a domestic passenger flight from Samsun Airport to Esenboğa ...

* Ankara Esenboğa Airport attack * Turkish Airlines Flight 158

Other airports in Ankara

There are three military airports in Ankara as follows: *

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Etimesgut Air Base Etimesgut Air Base ( tr, Etimesgut Hava Üssü) is an airbase of the Turkish Air Force located west of Ankara, Turkey. It is owned by Turkish Air Force and jointly operated by the air force and the Turkish Aeronautical Association ( tr, Türk Ha ...

Güvercinlik Army Air Base Güvercinlik can refer to: * Güvercinlik, Beşiri * Güvercinlik, Osmancık * Güvercinlik, Sason * the Turkish name for Acheritou Acheritou ( gr, Αχερίτου []; tr, Güvercinlik) is a village in Cyprus, located just to the west of the ...

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