Istanbul Airport

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Istanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTFM) is the larger of two international airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the Arnavutköy district on the European side of the city. It is the largest airport in Turkey, the largest privately-owned airport operation in the world, and one of the busiest airports in Europe. All scheduled commercial passenger flights were transferred from Atatürk Airport to Istanbul Airport on 6 April 2019, following the closure of Atatürk Airport for scheduled passenger flights. The IATA airport code IST was also transferred to the new airport. It served more than 84 million passengers in 2025, making it the second-busiest airport in Europe in 2025, after Heathrow Airport. It was also the eighth-busiest airport in the world of 2025 in terms of total passenger traffic and, by serving more than 66 million international passengers, the sixth-busiest airport in the world in terms of international passenger traffic according to ACI World traffic values. It has...

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