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

Overview

İzmir's main airport is located 18 km (11 mi) southwest of the city center in the Gaziemir district 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 2023, ADB served 10.5 million passengers, 6.4 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranks 5th in terms of total passenger traffic (after Istanbul Airport, Antalya Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport and Esenboğa Airport), and 4th in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Atatürk Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport and Esenboğa Airport) within the country.

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 m (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. 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.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Dublin
Air Albania	Tirana
Air Montenegro	Seasonal: Tivat
Air Serbia	Belgrade
AJet	Ankara, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Şanlıurfa Seasonal: Belgrade, Ordu-Giresun, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
ATA Airlines	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Azerbaijan Airlines	Seasonal: Baku
Belavia	Seasonal Charter: Minsk
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Caspian Airlines	Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, London–Stansted (begins 12 May 2025), Manchester (begins 15 May 2025), Munich, Nuremberg, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart, Vienna
easyJet	Seasonal: Berlin, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton
Enter Air	Seasonal Charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
FlyOne	Seasonal Charter: Chișinău
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Brussels, Medina
GetJet Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Vilnius
I-Fly	Seasonal Charter: Moscow–Vnukovo
Iran Air	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Iran Airtour	Seasonal: Tabriz, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Iran Aseman Airlines	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
LOT Polish Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Pegasus Airlines	Adana, Ankara, Baku, Basel/Mulhouse, Batman, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Elazığ, Ercan, Erzincan, Hamburg, Hatay, Istanbul, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Jeddah, Kayseri, London–Stansted, Mardin, Muş, Podgorica, Samsun, Şanlıurfa, Sivas, Skopje, Stuttgart, Trabzon, Vienna Seasonal: Amman–Queen Alia, Berlin, Frankfurt, Moscow–Domodedovo, Munich, Nuremberg, Ordu-Giresun, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv
Qeshm Air	Seasonal: Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Saudia	Seasonal: Jeddah, Riyadh
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague Seasonal Charter: Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
SunExpress	Abu Dhabi, Adana, Amsterdam, Antalya, Athens, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bremen, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Diyarbakır, Dubai–International, Düsseldorf, Elazığ (begins 29 October 2024) Ercan, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Hamburg, Hannover, Iğdır, Kars, Kayseri, Konya, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Malatya, Manchester, Mardin, Milan–Malpensa, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Samarqand, Samsun, Skopje, Stuttgart, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zürich Seasonal: Barcelona, Beirut, Birmingham, Bodrum, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Geneva, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Nantes, Oslo, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pristina, Rome–Fiumicino, Rotterdam, Saint Petersburg, Sarajevo, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv, Tirana, Venice, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal Charter: Plovdiv
Transavia	Seasonal: Paris–Orly
TUI Airways	Seasonal: Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul Seasonal: Frankfurt, Jeddah, Medina, Munich, Stuttgart
Wizz Air	Bucharest-Otopeni

Cargo

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

Traffic statistics

İzmir Adnan Menderes International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics

Year (months)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2024 (April)	2,218,732	13%	939,118	43%	3,157,850	21%
2023	6,415,091	6%	4,141,108	10%	10,556,199	7%
2022	6,068,934	5%	3,768,176	110%	9,837,110	30%
2021	5,776,477	29%	1,792,577	80%	7,569,054	39%
2020	4,469,524	49%	995,334	30%	5,464,858	44%
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	10,469,079	5%	2,354,622	12%	12,823,701	6%
2016	9,875,009	3%	2,076,174	21%	11,951,183	2%
2015	9,520,097	13%	2,619,691	2%	12,139,788	11%
2014	8,358,864	8%	2,577,908	4%	10,936,772	7%
2013	7,741,191	11%	2,467,436	2%	10,208,627	9%
2012	6,945,027	13%	2,411,257	1%	9,356,284	10%
2011	6,078,477	13%	2,464,334	16%	8,523,533	14%
2010	5,357,610	18%	2,127,457	28%	7,485,067	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

Road

The airport can be reached from İzmir via the 200, 202 or 204 ESHOT buses or by Havaş 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