Antalya Airport and direct flights

2026-10-08 · Author: Grand Emlak

A tangible advantage of living in Antalya is being 20 minutes from a major European airport; this guide relies on official sources only.

Profile and operator

According to DHMİ, Antalya Airport (IATA: AYT, ICAO: LTAI) is a civil airport in service since 1960 and open to domestic and international traffic. According to the operator Fraport TAV Antalya's own page, the first international terminal opened in 1998; Fraport began joint operation with IC İçtaş in 2007, the present joint venture with TAV Airports was formed in 2018, and the airport will be run under a new 25-year concession covering 2027–2051. Source: DHMİ, Fraport TAV Antalya – About Us, accessed 08.10.2026

Passenger numbers

According to Fraport TAV's corporate page, the airport served 39.1 million passengers in 2025, with 101 airlines flying to 230 destinations in 50 countries. TAV Airports' release of 4 March 2026 calls 2025 a record year with 39.2 million passengers, states that the EUR 865 million investment completed in April 2025 raised annual capacity to 65 million, and announces that Antalya will host Routes Europe in 2027. In 2024 the airport had carried 38.3 million passengers, 31.7 million international and 6.6 million domestic. Source: Fraport TAV Antalya – About Us, TAV Airports (04.03.2026), TAV Airports, accessed 08.10.2026

According to DHMİ's provisional figures for the end of August 2026, Antalya Airport served 25,103,581 passengers in the first eight months of the year, 4,848,466 domestic and 20,255,115 international; in the same period of 2025 the figure was 26,049,831. The total for all of Türkiye in the same period was 167,484,458 passengers. Source: DHMİ Passenger Traffic, end of August 2026, DHMİ Statistics, accessed 08.10.2026

Terminals

According to Fraport TAV's homepage, Terminal 1 serves domestic flights and Terminal 2 has served all international flights since 27 October 2025; a free shuttle runs between the terminals every 20 minutes, and the airport holds "Airport Carbon Accredited Level 4+" certification. According to TAV, the expansion took the international terminal to 225,000 and the domestic terminal to 75,000 square metres and raised aircraft stands to 202; EUR 2.5 billion in long-term financing was secured from 13 international lenders for the project. Source: Fraport TAV Antalya, TAV Airports, accessed 08.10.2026

Getting to the city centre

The airport lies north-east of the city centre on the D400 highway, and according to the operator the drive from the centre takes about 20 minutes. Municipal buses and the AntRay tram link the airport to the city centre and the intercity bus terminal via Meydan and Fatih; departure times are available from the Antalyakart app or the transport hotline 0242 606 07 07. From the bus terminal, 4 kilometres north of the centre, minibuses run to Side, Manavgat, Alanya and Kemer; taxi ranks are at the arrivals exits with a fare board. Source: Fraport TAV Antalya – Transport, Fraport TAV Antalya – Public Transport, accessed 08.10.2026

The Antobüs page of Antalya Ulaşım A.Ş. lists buses 600 and 800 as airport routes; routes and timetables are queried through the Antalyakart system. On the AntRay timetable portal the "Fatih – Havalimanı – Aksu – Expo" line can be selected. Havaş also runs a bus service between the airport and the city centre scheduled according to flight times; route, duration and fare details come from the search tool on its website or the 0850 222 0 487 line. Source: Antalya Ulaşım – Antobüs, AntRay timetable portal, Havaş Bus Services, accessed 08.10.2026

Direct flights: what we could verify

The airport's airline list, with country and terminal, includes carriers such as Aegean Airlines, Aeroflot, Air Algerie, Air Astana, Air Baltic and Air Serbia; ground handling is provided by Çelebi, Havaş and TGS. For current destinations, the operator's "Flight Destinations" application shows the points served from and to Antalya. Source: Fraport TAV Antalya – Airlines List, Fraport TAV Antalya – Flight Destinations, accessed 08.10.2026

On domestic routes, according to the operator's 2023 statistics, of 6.099 million passengers Pegasus carried 30.9 percent (1.887 million), Turkish Airlines 29.4 percent (1.794 million) and SunExpress 18 percent (1.096 million); the main destinations were Istanbul, Sabiha Gökçen, Ankara, Adana and İzmir. Source: Fraport TAV Antalya – Passenger Traffic Statistics, accessed 08.10.2026

Pegasus's website lists the Antalya–London Stansted flight with a flight time of about 4 hours 25 minutes. The airline's release of 4 March 2021 states that at that date it flew direct from Antalya to Amsterdam, Berlin, Beirut, Stockholm, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Geneva, London-Stansted, Stuttgart and Tel Aviv; Antalya–Moscow Domodedovo flights had started on 10 November 2020 three days a week. These details date from the releases; as the route pages of Turkish Airlines and SunExpress could not be accessed for this article, verify the current schedule on the airline's website. Source: Pegasus – Antalya-London, Pegasus press release (04.03.2021), Pegasus press release (Moscow), accessed 08.10.2026

Networks change with the season and airline decisions; before a purchase decision, confirm frequencies on the ticket sales page.

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