Adana Şakirpaşa Airport is a general aviation airport located in Adana. It served as the main commercial airport of Cilicia region from 1937 to 2024. 2019 Passengers Statistics of Airports in Turkey at DHMİ (State Airports Authority) Çukurova International Airport, which opened on 10 August 2024, replaced Şakirpaşa Airport as the regional airport. All commercial airline flights have been moved to the new airport, while Şakirpaşa Airport is now used primarily for private travel, pilot training and air sports.
History Adana Airport was constructed on farmland at the Şakirpaşa area, west of the historical city centre. It was opened to service as a civil-military airport in 1937, and became a full civil airport in 1956. Passenger traffic at Adana Airport has doubled since 2011, hitting a record in 2018 with 5,630,674 passengers.
Airlines and destinations The last commercial airline passenger flight departed shortly after midnight on 11 August 2024. As of 12 August 2024, there are no commercial airline passenger flights at Adana Airport.
There were 295 weekly departures to 24 routes from the Adana Airport during the high season, connecting the region to destinations in Turkey, Germany, Northern Cyprus, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Ercan was the shortest route (40 min.) and London was the longest route (4 hours 50 minutes). Routes to both airports in Istanbul were among the busiest in Turkey, with 144 departures weekly, equating to almost half of the total flights.
Statistics Passenger figures
+ Adana–Şakirpaşa Airport passenger traffic statistics Year Domestic % change International % change Total % change 2024 2,470,928 36% 614,120 30% 3,085,048 35% 2023 3,845,362 19% 883,446 37% 4,728,808 22% 2022 3,228,701 8% 645,892 53% 3,874,593 14% 2021 2,976,130 30% 423,361 89% 3,399,491 36% 2020 2,283,292 47% 224,052 70% 2,547,344 50% 2019 4,306,031 13% 751,757 7% 5,057,788 10% 2018 4,929,255 1% 701,419 8% 5,630,674 0% 2017 4,960,627 2% 649,549 9% 5,610,176 0% 2016 4,872,365 6% 713,337 2% 5,585,702 5% 2015 4,582,185 13% 727,521 15% 5,309,706 14% 2014 4,057,291 8% 630,203 12% 4,687,494 9% 2013 3,754,227 20% 561,551 11% 4,315,778 15% 2012 3,136,143 18% 628,014 7% 3,764,157 16% 2011 2,651,873 10% 589,094 39% 3,240,967 14% 2010 2,417,630 17% 423,540 2% 2,841,170 14% 2009 2,065,779 15% 416,623 16% 2,482,402 8% 2008 1,793,675 3% 496,752 11% 2,290,427 1% 2007 1,745,450 557,085 2,302,535
Route statistics + Direct routes from Adana Airport (high season) City Airport Weekly departures(July 2024) Airlines+ Istanbul (Pendik) Sabiha Gökçen Airport 74 Pegasus Airlines, AJet Istanbul (Arnavutköy)Istanbul Airport 70 Turkish Airlines North Nicosia Ercan Airport 42 AJet, Pegasus Airlines Ankara Ankara Esenboğa Airport 21 AJet Antalya Antalya Airport 20 Pegasus Airlines, SunExpress, Turkish Airlines İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport 20 Pegasus Airlines, SunExpress Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Airport 8 Pegasus Airlines, Corendon Airlines Bodrum Milas–Bodrum Airport 7Pegasus Airlines Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport 4AJet, Pegasus Airlines Berlin Berlin Brandenburg Airport 4SunExpress, Turkish Airlines, Eurowings Stuttgart Stuttgart Airport 4SunExpress Trabzon Trabzon Airport 4 Pegasus Airlines Cologne/Bonn Cologne Bonn Airport 3Corendon Airlines Doha Hamad International Airport 3Qatar Airways Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport 3 SunExpress Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport 3 Aeroflot Van Ferit Melen Airport 3 Pegasus Airlines Hamburg Hamburg Airport 2 Eurowings Amsterdam Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 1 SunExpress Brussels Brussels Airport 1 SunExpress Hannover Hannover Airport 1 SunExpress London London Stansted Airport 1 SunExpress Munich Munich Airport 1 SunExpress Nuremberg Nuremberg Airport 1 Corendon Airlines
Ground transportation Buses and coaches Adana Metropolitan Municipality local buses #135 and #159, run from the airport to the neighbourhoods of Seyhan, Çukurova and Sarıçam. Bus #159 is a 35-minute interval service that connects airport to the old town, metro (Vilayet station), Central railway station, and routes further north, ending in Kurttepe, close to the lake.http://www.adana.bel.tr/otobus-saatleri/entry/2563/ Local Bus #159 Bus #135 is an hourly service to Balcalı (Çukurova University).http://www.adana.bel.tr/otobus-saatleri/entry/2552/ Local Bus #135 Several local buses and minibuses that run east–west on the D400 state road, stop at the Airport intersection, 800 metres north of the airport terminals. Coach transport to the provinces surrounding Cilicia, run from the Central Coach Terminal, 3.9 km west of the airport entrance. Coach companies' shuttle services from the city centre to the Central Coach Terminal have stops at the Airport Intersection on the D400 state road.
Rail Şakirpaşa railway station is 1.9 kilometres' walking distance to the airport terminals, and it is located one block north of the D400 state road. There are frequent train services to Mersin Central, Tarsus and Adana Central stations,http://www.tcdd.gov.tr/upload/Files/ContentFiles/2010/bolgesel/mersinadanamersin.htm Adana-Mersin Railway Line and fewer daily services to eastern stations of Adana; Yüreğir, İncirlik and Ceyhan. Also from the station, there are once daily trips to Osmaniye, İskenderun, İslahiye, Karaman and Niğde.
Accidents and incidents 1961 Turkish Airlines Ankara crash 1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash 7 April 1999 Turkish Airlines Flight 5904
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