İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport

İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport (IATA: ADB, ICAO: LTBJ) is an international airport serving İzmir and most of the surrounding province in Turkey. It is named after former Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes.

İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport İzmir Adnan Menderes Havalimanı
IATA: ADB ICAO: LTBJ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	General Directorate of State Airports (DHMİ)
Operator	TAV Airports
Serves	İzmir
Location	Gaziemir, İzmir, Turkey
Opened	1987; 38 years ago (1987)
Focus city for	Turkish Airlines
Operating base for	Corendon Airlines[1] Pegasus Airlines SunExpress
Elevation AMSL	412 ft / 126 m
Coordinates	38°17′26″N 027°09′19″E
Website	www.adnanmenderesairport.com
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 16R/34L 3,240 10,630 Concrete 16L/34R 3,240 10,630 Composite
Statistics (2024)
Passengers 11,512,096 Passenger change 2023–24 9% Aircraft movements 78,254 Movements change 2023–24 7%
Source: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[2] Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe[3]

Overview

İzmir's main airport is located 18 km (11 mi) southwest^[2] of the city center in the Gaziemir district^[4] along the D.550/E87 highway, which continues south through Selçuk and Aydın before eventually reaching Gökova in Muğla. The new international terminal, which was designed by Yakup Hazan Architecture, opened in September 2006, with the new domestic terminal opening around March 2014. It replaced Çiğli Air Base which is now used only as a military base.

In 2024, ADB served 11.5 million passengers, 6.7 million of which were domestic passengers.^[5] It ranks 5th in terms of total passenger traffic (after Istanbul Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport, Antalya Airport, Ankara Esenboğa Airport), and 4th in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Istanbul Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport and Ankara Esenboğa Airport) within the country.^[6] It is also one of the busiest airports in the Middle East.

ADB has two runways, 16R/34L and 16L/34R; however, the two runways cannot operate simultaneously due to both their proximity and the lack of a dedicated taxiway to runway 16R/34L in the past. This has led to the use of runway 16L/34R as the primary runway, while runway 16R/34L is used mostly as a parallel taxiway, although it is available for use as a backup if the main runway is undergoing maintenance or is unavailable for whatever reason. In efforts to expand the airport's facilities, existing entrance taxiways were refurbished, along with the construction of a parallel taxiway, entrance taxiways, and aprons for passenger and cargo aircraft, as well as for de-icing. Completed in March 2020, the new 280,000 m² (3,000,000 sq ft) apron area increased the remote parking capacity of the airport from 35 to 61 with a total of 26 new spaces – eight of which are designated for use by private aircraft.^[7][8] In 2020, Adnan Menderes Airport was named one of the best European airports with a capacity of 5 – 15 million passengers by Airports Council International.^[9]

Airlines and destinations

Interior view

Interior view

Interior view

Aerial view

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens[10] Seasonal: Thessaloniki (begins 3 June 2025)[11]
Aer Lingus	Dublin[12]
Air Albania	Seasonal: Tirana[13]
Air Montenegro	Seasonal: Tivat[14]
Air Serbia	Seasonal: Belgrade[15][16]
AJet	Ankara,[17] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen,[17] Şanlıurfa Seasonal: Belgrade,[18] Ordu-Giresun,[17] Tehran–Imam Khomeini[citation needed]
ATA Airlines	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini[citation needed]
Azerbaijan Airlines	Seasonal: Baku[19]
Belavia	Seasonal charter: Minsk[20]
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow[21]
Caspian Airlines	Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Corendon Airlines[22]	Seasonal: Amsterdam,[23] Berlin,[citation needed] Brussels,[citation needed] Cologne/Bonn,[citation needed] Düsseldorf,[23] Frankfurt,[citation needed] Hamburg,[citation needed] Hannover,[citation needed] Munich,[citation needed] Nuremberg,[citation needed] Paris–Charles de Gaulle[24][better source needed], Stuttgart,[citation needed] Vienna[23]
easyJet	Seasonal: London–Gatwick,[25] London–Luton,[26] Manchester (begins 23 June 2025)[27]
Enter Air	Seasonal charter: Gdańsk,[citation needed] Katowice,[citation needed] Poznań,[citation needed] Warsaw–Chopin[citation needed]
Eurowings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn,[28] Düsseldorf,[29] Stuttgart[30]
Fly Kıbrıs Airlines	Ercan[citation needed]
FlyOne	Seasonal charter: Chișinău[31][better source needed]
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Brussels,[citation needed] Medina[citation needed]
GetJet Airlines	Seasonal charter: Vilnius[32]
I-Fly	Seasonal charter: Moscow–Vnukovo[33]
Iran Airtour	Seasonal: Tabriz,[citation needed] Tehran–Imam Khomeini[citation needed]
Iran Aseman Airlines	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini[34]
Jet2.com[35]	Seasonal: Birmingham,[36] Bristol,[37] East Midlands,[38][39] Edinburgh,[40][41] Glasgow,[42] Leeds/Bradford,[43] London–Stansted,[44] Manchester,[45] Newcastle upon Tyne[46]
LOT Polish Airlines	Seasonal charter: Katowice,[47] Warsaw–Chopin[47]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Munich (resumes 4 July 2025)[48]
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg[49]
Meraj Airlines	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini[citation needed]
Pegasus Airlines	Adana/Mersin[50] Ağrı (resumes 2 June 2025),[51] Ankara,[23] Baku,[52][53] Basel/Mulhouse[citation needed], Batman[citation needed], Cologne/Bonn,[54] Düsseldorf,[54] Elazığ,[55] Ercan,[55] Erzincan, Hamburg,[56] Hatay,[citation needed] Istanbul,[55] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen,[55] Jeddah, Kayseri,[55] Kraków,[57] London–Stansted,[55] Mardin,[55] Muş[citation needed], Podgorica, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Sivas,[58] Skopje,[59] Stuttgart,[54] Trabzon,[55] Vienna,[23] Zürich (begins 20 September 2025)[51] Seasonal: Amman–Queen Alia,[60] Berlin,[61] Copenhagen (begins 28 June 2025),[62] Frankfurt,[61] Lisbon,[63] Moscow–Domodedovo,[64] Munich,[65] Nuremberg,[citation needed] Ordu-Giresun,[citation needed] Tbilisi,[66] Tel Aviv[67]
Qeshm Air	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini[citation needed]
Saudia	Seasonal: Jeddah,[68] Riyadh[68]
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague[69] Seasonal charter: Katowice,[70] Poznań,[70] Warsaw–Chopin[70]
SunExpress[71]	Abu Dhabi,[72] Adana/Mersin,[73] Amsterdam,[74] Antalya,[55] Athens,[75] Basel/Mulhouse,[74] Berlin,[74] Bremen,[55] Brussels,[74] Cologne/Bonn,[74] Diyarbakır,[55] Dubai–International,[76] Düsseldorf,[55] Elazığ,[77] Ercan,[78] Erzurum,[55] Frankfurt,[55] Gaziantep,[55] Hamburg,[55] Hannover,[74] Iğdır, Kars,[55] Kayseri,[55] Konya,[55] London–Gatwick,[79] London–Stansted,[80] Malatya,[55] Manchester,[81] Mardin,[55] Milan–Malpensa,[74] Munich,[74] Nuremberg, Saarbrücken,[75][better source needed] Samarqand,[82] Samsun,[55] Sanliurfa,[83] Sharm El Sheikh,[84] Sivas,[85] Skopje,[86][87] Stuttgart,[74] Trabzon,[55] Van,[55] Vienna,[88] Zürich[55] Seasonal: Barcelona,[89] Beirut,[90] Birmingham,[75] Bodrum,[91] Budapest,[86] Copenhagen,[23] Cork (begins 31 May 2025),[92] Dortmund,[74] Dublin,[74][93] Edinburgh,[74][94] Eindhoven,[23] Geneva,[91] Madrid,[95] Nantes,[87] Oslo,[23] Paris–Charles de Gaulle,[23] Prague,[95] Pristina,[95] Rome–Fiumicino,[95] Rotterdam,[citation needed] Rovaniemi,[96] Saint Petersburg,[citation needed] Sarajevo,[97][98] Sofia,[99] Stockholm–Arlanda,[23] Tbilisi,[100] Tel Aviv,[90] Tirana,[101] Venice,[89] Warsaw–Chopin[95] Seasonal charter: Plovdiv[citation needed]
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly[102]
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels,[citation needed] Ostend/Bruges[citation needed]
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam[103]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[104]
Wizz Air	Bucharest-Otopeni[105]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Turkish Cargo	Entebbe, Istanbul, Maastricht/Aachen, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, Riyadh[106]

Traffic statistics

Annual passenger traffic at ADB airport. See Wikidata query.

İzmir–Adnan Menderes International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics^[107]

Year (months)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2024	6,717,620	5%	4,794,476	16%	11,512,096	9%
2023	6,415,091	6%	4,141,108	10%	10,556,199	7%
2022	6,074,056	5%	3,760,522	110%	9,834,578	30%
2021	5,776,477	29%	1,792,577	80%	7,569,054	39%
2020	4,469,524	51%	995,334	70%	5,464,858	56%
2019	9,031,924	15%	3,333,332	22%	12,365,256	8%
2018	10,679,606	2%	2,730,772	16%	13,410,378	5%
2017	10,474,760	5%	2,349,550	12%	12,824,310	6%
2016	9,955,167	4%	2,096,076	20%	12,051,243	1%
2015	9,545,443	14%	2,632,657	2%	12,178,100	11%
2014	8,390,425	8%	2,580,238	4%	10,970,663	7%
2013	7,753,983	12%	2,479,157	3%	10,233,140	9%
2012	6,945,044	13%	2,410,858	1%	9,355,902	10%
2011	6,125,076	14%	2,398,457	13%	8,523,533	14%
2010	5,357,610	18%	2,127,488	28%	7,485,098	21%
2009	4,534,339	21%	1,667,455	2%	6,201,794	14%
2008	3,757,891	3%	1,697,407	6%	5,455,298	4%
2007	3,635,414		1,600,890		5,236,304

Ground transport

İZBAN commuter trains connect the airport with İzmir's city center

Road

The airport can be reached from İzmir via the 200, 202, 204 or 206 ESHOT^[108] buses or by Havaş^[109] airport shuttle buses (every 20 minutes, 35 to 60 minutes) from the Turkish Airlines office.

Rail

İZBAN commuter rail trains stop at the Airport Station about every 10 mins at peak hours and 20 mins off peak.

Intercity trains operated by the Turkish State Railways also stop at the Airport Station. There are currently about 14 daily trains in both directions. Northbound trains all go to Basmane Terminal in the city center, while southbound trains serve Ödemiş, Tire, Söke, Aydın, Nazilli Torbalı and stations in between.

See also

• List of the busiest airports in Turkey
• List of the busiest airports in the Middle East