Erkilet International Airport

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.

Kayseri Erkilet Airport

Kayseri Erkilet Havalimanı
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
OperatorDHMİ (State Airports Administration)
Turkish Air Force
LocationKayseri, Turkey
Elevation AMSL3,506 ft / 1,069 m
Coordinates38°46′13″N 035°29′43″E
Map
ASR
Location of airport in Turkey
ASR
ASR (Europe)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,000 9,841 Concrete
Sources: DHMİ,[1] Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[2]

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
Corendon Airlines[3] Cologne/Bonn,[4] Düsseldorf,[4] Frankfurt,[4] Hannover ,[4] Munich,[4] Münster/Osnabrück,[4] Rotterdam,[3] Stuttgart[4]
Pegasus Airlines Antalya, Düsseldorf, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Rotterdam[5]
Smartwings Poland Seasonal charter: Warsaw–Chopin[6]
SunExpress Izmir
Seasonal: Antalya, Cologne/Bonn[7]
TUI fly Belgium Liège[8]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Seasonal: Amsterdam,[9] Berlin–Tegel,[9] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt,[9] Hamburg,[9] Munich,[10] Stuttgart, Vienna
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal charter: Kiev–Boryspil[11]

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

(*)Source: DHMI.gov.tr[12]

Access

Public buses run from the airport (just outside the gates) to the city center and vice versa.[13] 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.

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References
  1. (in Turkish) Kayseri Hava Meydanı Archived 2007-12-27 at the Wayback Machine at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
  2. EAD Basic
  3. "Flights to Izmir". corendonairlines.com.
  4. Liu, Jim (27 January 2020). "Corendon Airlines S20 Network expansion". routesonline.com.
  5. Liu, Jim. "Pegasus adds Kayseri – Rotterdam link in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  6. "air and charter tickets". itaka.pl.
  7. 2018, UBM (UK) Ltd. "SunExpress Germany S19 network additions as of 18OCT18". routesonline.com.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. https://www.tuifly.be/en
  9. Liu, Jim (1 June 2020). "Turkish Airlines S20 European network addition as of 29MAY20". Routesonline.
  10. Liu, Jim. "Turkish Airlines expands Dusseldorf / Munich network in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  11. "Charter flights timetable". flyuia.com.
  12. "Statistics". Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
  13. "KAYSERİ ULAŞIM BİLGİ SİSTEMİ (KUBİS)", Havaalanına giden hatlar, 2010 ©. Retrieved on 03 December 2013.
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