İstanbul Airport

ICAO LTFM41.2749°N 28.7321°E99 m / 325 ftLarge airport

İstanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTFM) is a large airport in Istanbul, İstanbul Province, Turkey. It opened on 29 Oct 2018. It has 6 runways; the longest is 4,100 m (13,451 ft). It is operated by General Directorate of State Airports (Turkey). In 2025 it handled 84.5 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 2014–2018

07 JUN 2014

MilestoneFoundation stone laying ceremony.

29 OCT 2018

Openedİstanbul Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

17R/35L174° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH4,100 m13,451 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

17L/35R174° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH4,100 m13,451 ftWIDTH60 m196 ftSURFACEAsphalt

16R/34L174° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH3,750 m12,303 ftWIDTH60 m196 ftSURFACEAsphalt

16L/34R174° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH3,750 m12,303 ftWIDTH45 m147 ftSURFACEAsphalt

18/36179° / 354° · LIT

LENGTH3,060 m10,039 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

09/27089° / 269° · LIT

LENGTH2,819 m9,250 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2018–2025

95K

52.0M

23.4M

37.2M

64.5M

76.0M

80.4M

84.5M

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Routes

351 destinations · 132 countries

Year-round342

Seasonal12

JMKMykonos Island National AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines517 km321 mi RHORhodes International Airport "Diagoras"Greece · Aegean Airlines544 km338 mi JTRSantorini International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines611 km380 mi OHDOhrid St. Paul the Apostle AirportNorth Macedonia · Turkish Airlines668 km415 mi TIVTivat AirportMontenegro · Turkish Airlines838 km521 mi DBVDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković AirportCroatia · Turkish Airlines877 km545 mi ADJMarka International (Amman Civil) AirportJordan · Royal Jordanian1,219 km757 mi UFAUfa International AirportRussia · UTair Aviation2,479 km1,540 mi RVNRovaniemi AirportFinland · Turkish Airlines2,818 km1,751 mi KEFKeflavik International AirportIceland · Icelandair4,113 km2,556 mi SEZSeychelles International AirportSeychelles · Turkish Airlines5,788 km3,596 mi HAHPrince Said Ibrahim International AirportComoros · Turkish Airlines6,059 km3,765 mi

Seasonal charter2

ZIAZhukovsky International AirportRussia · Southwind Airlines1,730 km1,075 mi SVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Southwind Airlines1,751 km1,088 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from IST. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Istanbul Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

95 airlines · destinations from IST

Hub airlines1

TKTurkish Airlines297

Passenger94

WZRed Wings Airlines12 A3Aegean Airlines6 SUAeroflot6 TOTransavia France6 AWGAnimawings5 W6Wizz Air5 C6Centrum Air4 DVSCAT Airlines4 AHAir Algérie3 KCAir Astana3 SMAir Cairo3 JUAir Serbia3 A4Azimuth3 F3flyadeal3 XYFlynas3 IAIraqi Airways3 LOLOT Polish Airlines3 HHQanot Sharq3 SVSaudia3 U6Ural Airlines3 UTUTair Aviation3 G9Air Arabia2 ZQAir Montenegro2 TSAir Transat2 MUChina Eastern Airlines2 FSFlyArystan2 5FFlyOne2 6EIndiGo2 RQKam Air2 LHLufthansa2 PCPegasus Airlines2 DPPobeda2 FVRossiya2 ATRoyal Air Maroc2 RJRoyal Jordanian2 S7S7 Airlines2 3USichuan Airlines2 SZSomon Air2 2SSouthwind Airlinesseasonal charter · 2 8UAfriqiyah Airways1 CAAir China1 UXAir Europa1 AFAir France1 9SAir Samarkand1 HMAir Seychelles1 BTAirBaltic1 NHAll Nippon Airways1 FGAriana Afghan Airlines1 OZAsiana Airlines1 J2Azerbaijan Airlines1 J4Badr Airlines1 —Basra Airlines1 B2Belavia1 —Berniq Airways1 BABritish Airways1 OUCroatia Airlines1

—Crown Airlines1

MSEgyptAir1 EKEmirates1 ETEthiopian Airlines1 EYEtihad Airways1 IFFly Baghdad1

—Fly Oya1

FZflydubai1 —FlyErbil1 —Flykhiva1 0GGhadames Air Transport1 GFGulf Air1 H7HiSky1 FIIcelandairseasonal · 1 J9Jazeera Airways1 NVKarun Airlines1 KLKLM1 KMKM Malta Airlines1 KEKorean Air1 KUKuwait Airways1 LNLibyan Airlines1 YLLibyan Wings1 W5Mahan Air1 OMMIAT Mongolian Airlines1 MEMiddle East Airlines - Air Liban1 N4Nordwind Airlines1 BJNouvelair1 WYOman Air1 QRQatar Airways1 OVSalamAir1 SQSingapore Airlines1 GQSky Express1 RBSyrian Air1 ROTAROM1 TUTunisair1 T5Turkmenistan Airlines1 HYUzbekistan Airways1 VYVueling1

Former hub of Atlasglobal and Onur Air.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from IST. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers84.5M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#5of 3,974 · #1 Europe · #1 TR Longest runway4,100 m13,451 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#80of 29,858 · #5 Europe · #1 TR Elevation99 m325 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,722of 43,403 · =3,593 Europe · #60 TR AgeOpened 20182026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=13,682of 15,079 · #1,390 Europe · #63 TR Runways61 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4of 29,978 · =1 Europe · #1 TR

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels

TOWERIstanbul Tower131.100

GROUNDIstanbul Ground121.750

ClearanceIstanbul Clearance Delivery127.100