Erkilet International Airport

Kayseri Erkilet Airport
Kayseri Erkilet Havalimanı
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator DHMİ (State Airports Administration)
Turkish Air Force
Location Kayseri, Turkey
Elevation AMSL 3,506 ft / 1,069 m
Coordinates 38°46′13″N 035°29′43″E / 38.77028°N 35.49528°E / 38.77028; 35.49528Coordinates: 38°46′13″N 035°29′43″E / 38.77028°N 35.49528°E / 38.77028; 35.49528
Map
ASR
Location of airport in Turkey
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,000 9,841 Concrete
Sources: DHMİ,[1] Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

Erkilet International Airport or Kayseri Erkilet Airport (Turkish: Kayseri Erkilet Havalimanı, IATA: ASR, ICAO: LTAU) is a military airbase and public airport located 5 km (3.1 mi) north[2] of Kayseri in the Kayseri Province of Turkey.

Facilities

The prior capacity of the airport was 600,000 passengers per year. With the opening of the new international terminal in March 2007, its total capacity increased up to one million passengers per year. The airport is able to accommodate jets the size of the Boeing 747. However, smaller jets like the Boeing 737 and Boeing 757 are more commonly seen there.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
AnadoluJet Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
AtlasGlobal Istanbul-Atatürk
Corendon Airlines Antalya
Seasonal charter: Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Germania Düsseldorf
Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel,[3] Friedrichshafen, Munich
Onur Air Istanbul-Atatürk
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Cologne/Bonn[4]
Pegasus Airlines Antalya, Düsseldorf, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Amsterdam
SunExpress Izmir
Seasonal: Antalya
Seasonal charter: Tehran-Imam Khomeini
SunExpress Deutschland Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
TUI fly Belgium Liège[5]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk
Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Vienna

Statistics

Kayseri Erkilet International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics
Year (months) Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2012 * 968,942 Increase 5,9% 254,818 Increase 1,8% 1,223,760 Increase 5.0%
2011 * 914,537 Increase 27.0% 250,129 Increase 14.0% 1,164,666 Increase 24.0%
2010 720,229 Increase 27.0% 219,955 Increase 4.0% 940,184 Increase 21.0%
2009 568,106 Increase 18.4% 210,533 Increase 8.0% 778,639 Increase 15.4%
2008 479,857 Decrease 17.0% 194,976 Increase 3.0% 674,833 Decrease 12.0%
2007 575,473 189,833 765,306

(*)Source: DHMI.gov.tr[6]

Access

Public buses run from the airport (just outside the gates) to the city center and vice versa.[7] Travelers can also hire a taxi or rent a car. A less expensive option is to pre-arrange your airport pick up either through a travel agency or your hotel.

References

  1. ↑ (in Turkish) Kayseri Hava Meydanı at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
  2. 1 2 EAD Basic
  3. ↑ https://www.flygermania.com/en-de/fluginformation/streckennetz/
  4. ↑ "Onur Air schedules Kayseri seasonal routes in 3Q17 2016". routesonline. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  5. ↑ https://www.tuifly.be/en
  6. ↑ Statistics
  7. ↑ "KAYSERİ ULAŞIM BİLGİ SİSTEMİ (KUBİS)", Havaalanına giden hatlar, 2010 ©. Retrieved on 03 December 2013.
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