Gazipaşa–Alanya Airport

Gazipaşa Airport (IATA: GZP, ICAO: LTFG) is an airport which serves the Gazipaşa, Anamur, Alanya, Kargıcak, Kestel, Payallar, Avsallar, Okurcalar, Kızılağaç and Side areas of the Antalya Province in Turkey. The airport opened for domestic flights in July 2010 with daily flights from Istanbul with Borajet.^[2] International flights began in the 2011 holiday season, with flights from Amsterdam. The new airport is only 30 minutes by road from Alanya compared to a travel time of two hours between Alanya and Antalya Airport, which was previously the nearest airport, 120 km away.

Gazipaşa Airport Gazipaşa Havalimanı
IATA: GZP ICAO: LTFG
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	General Directorate of State Airports (DHMİ)
Operator	TAV Airports
Serves	Gazipaşa, Antalya Province, Turkey
Location	Gazipaşa
Opened	2010
Elevation AMSL	92 ft / 28 m
Coordinates	36°17′56″N 32°18′00″E
Website	gzpairport.com
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,350 7,710 Concrete / asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers 1,051,608[1]

Construction

The airport was finished in 1999, but it was not opened for operation. Talks were held in 2006, with reports commissioned by the national government, local government, and tourist organizations to commence operation. Finally, the decision was made clear in 2007 after multiple bids had been submitted to award operation to Tepe Akfen Ventures Airports Holding (TAV), which paid $50,000 a year, and a 65% share in profit for the right to operate the airport for 25 years.^[2][3] TAV then updated and expanded the airport, including lengthening the runway to 2,350m in order to handle international operations, among other things.

Facilities

The airport has an annual passenger capacity of 1,500,000 passengers, a terminal area of 6,700 square meters and a parking lot with a capacity of 105 vehicles.^{[citation needed]}

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
Air Serbia[4]	Seasonal charter: Belgrade, Niš
AJet	Ankara[5]
Avion Express	Seasonal charter: Vilnius[6]
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Berlin,[7][8] Bucharest-Otopeni,[9] Cluj-Napoca,[9] Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Leipzig/Halle,[7][10] Munich,[7] Nuremberg,[7] Warsaw-Chopin[7]
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Seasonal: Amsterdam,[11][12] Groningen[13]
Finnair	Helsinki[14]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Oslo[15]
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[16]
Pobeda	Moscow-Vnukovo
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen,[17] Oslo,[17] Stockholm–Arlanda[17]
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Helsinki,[18][19] Oslo,[20] Stockholm–Arlanda[21]
Taban Air	Seasonal charter: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 10 July 2025)[22]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul[23]

Traffic statistics

Annual passenger traffic at GZP airport. See Wikidata query.

Alanya–Gazipaşa Airport passenger traffic statistics^[1]

Year (months)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2024	481,635	2%	569,973	57%	1,051,608	6%
2023	473.046	12%	362.663	39%	835.709	22%
2022	421.266	14%	261.388	24%	682.654	18%
2021	369.495	74%	210.140	259%	579.635	114%
2020	212.311	57%	58.557	90%	270.868	75%
2019	493.485	14%	591.416	6%	1.084.901	10%
2018	575.218	20%	626.677	83%	1.201.895	46%
2017	478.837	16%	342.341	11%	821.178	14%
2016	411.471	2%	307.247	40%	718.718	21%
2015	403.792	26%	510.225	26%	914.017	26%
2014	319.578	189%	405.264	78%	724.842	114%
2013	110.590	2.769%	227.932	200%	338.522	325%
2012	3.854	8%	75.886	664%	79.740	464%
2011	4.192	11%	9.938	-	14.130	202%
2010	4.684	-	-	-	4.684	-

^1 : 2010 statistics correspond to the last 6 months of 2010 since the opening of the airport.

Accidents and incidents

• On 9 May 2024, a Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft belonging to Corendon Airlines saw one of its tires burst during landing, resulting emergency landing on one of the airport's runways after its front landing gear failed, resulting in the evacuation of all 190 passengers and crew on board and the temporary closure of the runway.^[24]