Esenboğa International Airport

Ankara Esenboğa Airport Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı
IATA: ESB ICAO: LTAC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	TAV Airports
Serves	Ankara, Turkey
Hub for	AnadoluJet Turkish Airlines
Elevation AMSL	3,125 ft / 953 m
Coordinates	40°07′41″N 032°59′42″E / 40.12806°N 32.99500°E / 40.12806; 32.99500Coordinates: 40°07′41″N 032°59′42″E / 40.12806°N 32.99500°E / 40.12806; 32.99500
Website	esenbogaairport.com
Map
ESB Location within Turkey
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03R/21L 3,750 12,303 Asphalt 03L/21R 3,750 12,303 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 12,113,439 Passenger change 14–15 9.8% Aircraft movements 98,610 Movements change 14–15 4.4%
Source: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe

Passengers	12,113,439
Passenger change 14–15	9.8%
Aircraft movements	98,610
Movements change 14–15	4.4%

Ankara Esenboğa Airport (IATA: ESB, ICAO: LTAC) (Turkish: Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı), is the international airport of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has been operating since 1955. In 2014, the airport has served more than 11 million passengers in total, 4.9 million of which were domestic passengers. It ranked 4th in terms of total passenger traffic (after Ataturk Airport, Antalya Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport), 3rd in terms of domestic passenger traffic (after Ataturk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen Airport) among airports in Turkey.

The airport is located northeast of Ankara, 28 km (17 mi) from the city center. The airport is connected with Kızılay (the city center) and Ankara Intercity Bus Terminal (Turkish: Ankara Şehirlerarası Terminal İşletmesi, AŞTİ) by EGO city bus number 442 (from 6 am to 11pm). Transportation to the city center is also by taxi (around TRY 70 one way, metered) and through the Havaş bus line (approximately TRY 12,5 one way). The road between Esenboğa airport and the Ankara ring road was expanded during the summer of 2006, decreasing the driving time between the city center and the airport by several minutes.

The name of the airport comes from the village of Esenboğa (the ğ is silent), which literally means "Windflowing Bull" or "Serene Bull", the modernized form of Isen Buga, the name of a Turkic warlord in the army of Timur who settled his troops here during the Battle of Ankara in 1402.