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Adana Airport was constructed on farmland at the Şakirpaşa area, 2.3 km (1.4 mi) 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. [citation needed] Passenger traffic at Adana Airport has doubled since 2011, hitting a record in 2018 with 5,630,674 passengers.
The formal opening ceremony of the new airport took place on 10 August 2024. [6] Adana Şakirpaşa Airport closed at 00:00 on 11 August 2024 to all commercial airlines, and Çukurova Airport opened at 12:00 on 11 August 2024. [7] The inauguration was done by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. [8]
Airport City served Date of closure Notes Benina International Airport: Benghazi: 17 July 2014 As of 17 July 2014 all flights to the airport were suspended due to fighting in the area (Battle of Benina Airport) Casablanca–Anfa Airport: Casablanca: 2007 Replaced with Mohammed V International Airport in Nouaceur. Durban International Airport ...
Four international airports are closing ahead of Hurricane Milton's expected landfall, while American Airlines is operating 12 flights for evacuees. Over 1,800 flights canceled and 10 airports ...
On April 18, there was a close call between Southwest Flight 2937 to Orlando and JetBlue Flight 1554 to Boston. The Southwest Boeing 737 was told to cross Runway 4 at the same time as the JetBlue ...
Istanbul's second-busiest airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport, which handled over 41 million passengers in 2024, is one of the fastest-growing airports in Europe. A third airport in Istanbul with a planned capacity of 150 million passengers opened to passengers on 6 April 2019, in northern Istanbul on the Black Sea coast.
The first flight from the airport was Turkish Airlines flight TK2124 to the Turkish capital Ankara on 31 October 2018. [32] On 1 November 2018, five daily flights began to arrive and depart from the airport: from Ankara , Antalya , Baku , North Nicosia , and İzmir , [ 33 ] followed by Adana and Trabzon starting in December.
It was snowing at the time of the accident, a condition which was rare for Adana. [4] Due to the poor visibility, the pilots initiated a go-around after failing to see the runway. During the second approach, the aircraft was too low on altitude and struck the ground at 4:24 local time, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) away from the airport.