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.

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:

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

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 Increase2% 569,973 Increase57% 1,051,608 Increase6%
2023 473.046 Increase12% 362.663 Increase39% 835.709 Increase22%
2022 421.266 Increase14% 261.388 Increase24% 682.654 Increase18%
2021 369.495 Increase74% 210.140 Increase259% 579.635 Increase114%
2020 212.311 Decrease57% 58.557 Decrease90% 270.868 Decrease75%
2019 493.485 Decrease14% 591.416 Decrease6% 1.084.901 Decrease10%
2018 575.218 Increase20% 626.677 Increase83% 1.201.895 Increase46%
2017 478.837 Increase16% 342.341 Increase11% 821.178 Increase14%
2016 411.471 Increase2% 307.247 Decrease40% 718.718 Decrease21%
2015 403.792 Increase26% 510.225 Increase26% 914.017 Increase26%
2014 319.578 Increase 189% 405.264 Increase78% 724.842 Increase114%
2013 110.590 Increase2.769% 227.932 Increase200% 338.522 Increase325%
2012 3.854 Decrease8% 75.886 Increase664% 79.740 Increase464%
2011 4.192 Decrease11% 9.938 - 14.130 Increase202%
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.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b Statistics
  2. ^ a b TAV opens Turkey's Alanya Gazipasa Airport, Air Transport World, August 2010.
  3. ^ "Gazipasa Airport, Antalya".
  4. ^ "Air Serbia to grow charter traffic by 15%". exyuaviation.com. 1 June 2023.
  5. ^ Liu, Jim (13 March 2024). "AJet NS24 New Flight Number Designations – 12MAR24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Novaturas Flights en". novatours.eu/.
  7. ^ Liu, Jim (17 February 2025). "Centrum Air Revises Planned Network Expansion in NS25". AeroRoutes. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Flugplan".
  9. ^ "Corendon Airlines Adds Gazipasa – Germany Routes in Oct 2024".
  10. ^ a b "Corendon Airlines: Rute din București și Cluj Napoca spre Gazipasa și Antalya în 2024". 11 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Corendon Airlines Adds Gazipasa – Germany Routes in Oct 2024".
  12. ^ "Corendon Gazipaşa'ya uçuş sözünü tuttu".
  13. ^ "Corendon start vluchten van Schiphol naar Gazipasa". 11 January 2023.
  14. ^ "Kos en Gazipasa nieuw in zomerdienstregeling Groningen Airport Eelde". 1 December 2023.
  15. ^ "Finnair August 2022 European Network Adjustment - 24JUL22". Aeroroutes.
  16. ^ "Norwegian NS23 Oslo Routes Addition -17NOV22". aeroroutes.com. 17 November 2022.
  17. ^ a b c Liu, Jim (22 January 2024). "SAS NS24 European Network Changes – 21JAN24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
  18. ^ "Pelkät lennot Gazipasaan".
  19. ^ "Boeing 737: Plane skids off runway in Senegal, tyre bursts in Turkey". Al Jazeera. 9 May 2024.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazipa%C5%9Fa_Airport
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