Antalya Airport (IATA: AYT, ICAO: LTAI) (Turkish: Antalya Havalimanı) is a major international airport located 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of the city centre of Antalya, Turkey. It is a major destination during the European summer leisure season due to its location at the country's Mediterranean coast. It handled 35,538,387 passengers in 2023, making it the third-busiest airport in Turkey one of the busiest airports in the Middle East. The airport has two international terminals and one domestic terminal. Antalya is one of the major airports in southwestern Turkey, the others being Bodrum and Dalaman. Among the top 50 busiest airports in the world by passenger numbers in 2021, Antalya saw the highest growth in passenger numbers at 125.8%. The airport's passenger numbers that year were among very few international airports to reach a level which matched or exceeded a normal operational year in the 2010s decade.

History

The airport was built to accommodate the millions of passengers who come to Turkey's Mediterranean beaches in summer. It consists of two international terminals and one domestic terminal. The construction of International Terminal 1 started in 1996 by Bayindir Holding and it was ready for service on 1 April 1998. International Terminal 2 was opened in 2005 and the domestic terminal was opened in 2010. The airport is operated by Fraport TAV Antalya A.S., a joint-venture between Fraport AG and TAV Airports.

In July 2011, the airport was selected as Best Airport in Europe (10–25-million-passenger category) by Airports Council International (ACI).

In 2003, the airport handled 10 million passengers, representing an increase of 78% since 1998. According to ACI statistics, Antalya Airport ranked 30th in 2005, 2008 and 2009 for international passenger traffic. In 2008, AYT was the world's 30th-busiest airport in international passengers traffic. In 2009, AYT also held its 30th spot in that category among world airports, with 15,210,733 international passengers. By the end of 2010, it rose to the 23rd spot with over 18 million international passengers.

A new airport is due to open west of Antalya, close to Kaş.

Terminals

There are three terminals at the airport, Terminal 1, Terminal 2, and the Domestic Terminal.

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Grozny, Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Aero Nomad Airlines	Seasonal: Bishkek
Air Algérie	Seasonal: Algiers
Air Astana	Almaty, Astana
Air Serbia	Seasonal charter: Belgrade, Niš
airBaltic	Seasonal charter: Riga
AirExplore	Seasonal charter: Bratislava, Košice, Piešťany
AJet	Ankara, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, London–Stansted, Zurich Seasonal: Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Tel Aviv (suspended), Vienna
Animawings	Seasonal charter: Arad, Baia Mare, Brașov, Bucharest–Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Oradea, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, Timișoara
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku
Azur Air	Seasonal charter: Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magnitogorsk, Moscow–Vnukovo, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Saint Petersburg, Saratov, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Tomsk, Ulyanovsk, Vladikavkaz, Yekaterinburg
Belavia	Seasonal charter: Brest, Homiel, Minsk, Viciebsk
BH Air	Seasonal charter: Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna
Braathens International Airways	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen (begins 29 June 2024), Göteborg-Landvetter
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels
Buzz	Seasonal charter: Kraków
Chair Airlines	Seasonal: Zürich
Condor	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich
Corendon Airlines	Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt/Weimar, Hamburg, Hannover, Katowice, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Rostock, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Birmingham, Bremen, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Glasgow, Graz, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Kassel, Linz, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Memmingen, Münster/Osnabrück, Newcastle upon Tyne, Saarbrücken, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Vienna, Zürich
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht/Aachen, Rotterdam/The Hague
DAT	Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen
Discover Airlines	Frankfurt, Munich
easyJet	Birmingham, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester,London-Southend Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast–International, Berlin, Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air	Seasonal charter: Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Poznań, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Warsaw–Chopin, Warsaw–Modlin, Warsaw–Radom, Wrocław
Etihad Airways	Seasonal: Abu Dhabi
European Air Charter	Seasonal charter: Plovdiv
Eurowings	Seasonal: Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart
Finnair	Seasonal: Helsinki
Fly Lili	Seasonal charter: Bucharest–Băneasa
flyadeal	Seasonal: Riyadh
FlyArystan	Seasonal: Aqtau, Atyrau, Oral, Qarağandy, Qyzylorda
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal: Berlin, Chișinău, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, London–Gatwick, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart Seasonal charter: Weeze, Zagreb
GetJet Airlines	Seasonal charter: Vilnius
Helvetic Airways	Seasonal: Bern, Zürich
HiSky	Seasonal charter: Brașov
I-Fly	Seasonal charter: Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow–Vnukovo, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Ufa, Yekaterinburg
Ikar	Seasonal charter: Arkhangelsk, Krasnoyarsk, Syktyvkar, Tomsk, Vladivostok
Iraqi Airways	Baghdad
Jazeera Airways	Kuwait City
Jet2.com	Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal: Belfast–International, Bournemouth (begins 3 May 2025)
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg
Mavi Gök Airlines	Seasonal charter: Astana, Bremen, Linz, Saarbrücken
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Astrakhan, Barnaul, Cheboksary, Chelyabinsk, Grozny, Irkutsk, Kaluga, Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Murmansk, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Orsk, Perm, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Saratov, Surgut, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Ulyanovsk-Vostochny, Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Bergen, Stavanger
Pegasus Airlines	Adana, Almaty, Amman–Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Ankara, Beirut, Cologne/Bonn, Dubai–International, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Frankfurt, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Kayseri, London–Stansted, Manchester, Sharm El Sheikh, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tel Aviv (suspended), Trabzon Seasonal: Aalborg, Bahrain, Billund, Bratislava, Bremen, Copenhagen, Dresden, Doha, Geneva, Hamburg, Hannover, Helsinki, Kuwait City, Maastricht, Moscow–Domodedovo, Munich, Münster, Norrköping, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pristina, Saint Petersburg, Sarajevo, Shymkent, Skopje, Tallinn, Tirana, Vienna, Yerevan Seasonal charter: Ålesund, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Poznań, Tirana, Trondheim, Zielona Góra
Petroleum Air Services	Seasonal charter: Cairo
Pobeda	Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Moscow–Vnukovo Seasonal: Kazan, Perm
Qatar Airways	Seasonal: Doha
Red Wings Airlines	Seasobal: Chelyabinsk, Saransk
Rossiya	Sochi Seasonal: Saint Petersburg Seasonal charter: Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, Samara, Tyumen, Ufa, Yekaterinburg
Royal Jordanian	Seasonal: Amman–Queen Alia
S7 Airlines	Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Billund, Gothenburg, Tromsø, Trondheim
SCAT Airlines	Seasonal: Almaty, Astana
Smartavia	Seasonal charter: Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
SmartLynx Airlines Estonia	Seasonal charter: Tallinn
Smartwings	Prague Seasonal: Bratislava, Brno, Ostrava, Pardubice Seasonal charter: České Budějovice, Karlovy Vary
Smartwings Hungary	Seasonal charter: Budapest, Debrecen
Smartwings Poland	Seasonal charter: Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Southwind Airlines	Seasonal: Astana, Seasonal charter: Beirut, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow–Sheremetyevo Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv (suspended), Ufa, Yekaterinburg
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Malmö, Oslo, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim
Sundair	Seasonal: Bremen, Dresden, Lübeck
Sunday Airlines	Seasonal: Astana Seasonal charter: Almaty, Aktau, Aktobe, Karagandy, Kostanay, Oskemen, Shymkent
SunExpress	Abu Dhabi, Adana, Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Birmingham, Bremen, Bristol, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Diyarbakır, Dubai–International, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Erbil, Erzurum (begins 19 January 2025), Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Glasgow (begins 4 April 2025), Gothenburg, Graz, Hamburg, Hannover, Hatay, İzmir, Kayseri, Krakow, Leeds/Bradford, Leipzig/Halle, Liverpool (begins 6 April 2025), London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Lyon, Malatya, Manchester, Mardin, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Saarbrücken, Samsun, Sharm El Sheikh, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stuttgart, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zürich Seasonal: Aalborg, Beirut, Billund, Brussels, Bucharest–Otopeni, Dortmund, Dresden, Dublin, Eindhoven, Geneva, Helsinki, Kuwait City, Marseille, Milan–Malpensa, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Pristina, Riga, Rotterdam/The Hague, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Tirana, Vilnius, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal charter: Plovdiv
Swiss International Air Lines	Seasonal: Geneva
Tailwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Bremen, Erfurt/Weimar, Kuwait City, Weeze
TAROM	Seasonal charter: Baia Mare, Bucharest–Otopeni, Cluj–Napoca, Suceava, Timișoara
Transavia	Seasonal: Marseille, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways	Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
TUI fly Belgium	Brussels Seasonal: Antwerp, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Groningen, Rotterdam/The Hague
Turkish Airlines	Ercan, Istanbul, Moscow–Vnukovo Seasonal: Baghdad, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Kazan, Kuwait City, Moscow–Domodedovo, Munich, Omsk, Saint Petersburg, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv (suspended), Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal charter: Almaty, Karaganda, Astana, Sarajevo
Utair	Grozny, Moscow–Vnukovo Seasonal: Tyumen
Widerøe	Seasonal charter: Bergen, Trondheim
Wizz Air	London–Gatwick, London–Luton Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Debrecen
Yamal Airlines	Seasonal charter: Moscow–Domodedovo
Jettime	Seasonal charter: Örebro, Karlstad

Traffic statistics

Antalya International Airport passenger traffic statistics

Year (months)	Domestic	%change	International	%change	Total	%change
2019 (Jan-Sep)	5.399.599	8%	23.929.236	19%	29.328.835	13%
2018	7,575,871	2%	24,127,993	31%	31,703,864	23%
2017	7,459,241	6%	18,472,418	58%	25,931,659	38%
2016	7,023,698	1.4%	11,717,961	48%	18,741,659	32.5%
2015	6,923,023	11%	20,801,226	6%	27,724,249	2%
2014	6,217,042	12%	22,124,021	3%	28,341,063	5%
2013	5,526,485	12%	21,492,138	7%	27,018,623	8%
2012	4,971,312	10.0%	20,022,355	2.0%	24,993,667	0.9%
2011	4,554,784	23.0%	20,558,851	12.0%	25,113,635	14.0%
2010	3,694,085	18.0%	18,302,516	20.0%	21,996,601	20.0%
2009	3,135,139	21.0%	15,210,554	6.0%	18,345,693	2.0%
2008	2,588,054	1.5%	16,201,203	6.9%	18,789,257	6.1%
2007	2,550,396	6.0%	15,159,989	24.0%	17,710,385	21.0%
2006	2,406,626	50.0%	12,235,417	14.0%	14,642,043	8.0%
2005	1,608,749	47.0%	14,256,114	13.0%	15,864,863	16.0%
2004	1,092,858	77.6%	12,563,195	28.8%	13,656,053	31.7%
2003	615,420	5.4%	9,756,180	0.1%	10,371,600	0.4%
2002	584,077		9,750,874		10,334,951

Ground transport

There are 2 city buses that serve Antalya Airport (number 600 and 800). Route number 600 goes to/from Otogar (city bus station) and route number 800 goes to/from Lara. Also, Havaş shuttles serve the airport to/from 5M Migros shopping centre. The Antalya Tramway has been extended to the airport to provide a railway link to the city.

Antalya Airfield Command

There is another runway right next to the Antalya airport landing strip. This is a runway or entrance used by the Turkish Air Force and its landing is forbidden to civilians.

See also

• List of the busiest airports in the Middle East