Esenboğa International Airport (ESB)
A working profile of Esenboğa International Airport in Ankara, Turkey: identifiers, location, the destinations served by scheduled flights, and the airlines that operate there.
Quick facts
- Full name: Esenboğa International Airport
- Serves: Ankara, Turkey
- Coordinates: 40.1281, 32.9951
- Elevation: 3,125 ft
- Time zone: Europe/Istanbul
Esenboğa International Airport sits inside the air network of Turkey. It shows 52 distinct scheduled departures across 43 destinations and 10 operating carriers in the OpenFlights routes table. Whether it works as a primary hub, a focus city, or a regional feeder depends on the size of those numbers. The bigger they get, the more likely the airport supports connecting traffic on top of its point-to-point passengers.
Destinations from ESB
Destinations are listed in order of how many distinct airline codes serve them. Click any code for the destination's own airport profile, or jump to the dedicated route page.
| IATA | Destination | City | Country | Route | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBL | Erbil International Airport | Erbil | Iraq | ESB→EBL | 3 |
| IST | Istanbul Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | ESB→IST | 2 |
| IKA | Imam Khomeini International Airport | Tehran | Iran | ESB→IKA | 2 |
| ADB | Adnan Menderes International Airport | Izmir | Turkey | ESB→ADB | 2 |
| BJV | Milas Bodrum International Airport | Bodrum | Turkey | ESB→BJV | 2 |
| ECN | Ercan International Airport | Nicosia | Cyprus | ESB→ECN | 2 |
| SAW | Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | ESB→SAW | 2 |
| VIE | Vienna International Airport | Vienna | Austria | ESB→VIE | 2 |
| GYD | Heydar Aliyev International Airport | Baku | Azerbaijan | ESB→GYD | 1 |
| MUC | Munich Airport | Munich | Germany | ESB→MUC | 1 |
| CGN | Cologne Bonn Airport | Cologne | Germany | ESB→CGN | 1 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf Airport | Duesseldorf | Germany | ESB→DUS | 1 |
| STR | Stuttgart Airport | Stuttgart | Germany | ESB→STR | 1 |
| BEG | Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport | Belgrade | Serbia | ESB→BEG | 1 |
| DOH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | ESB→DOH | 1 |
| ADA | Adana Airport | Adana | Turkey | ESB→ADA | 1 |
| ADF | Adıyaman Airport | Adiyaman | Turkey | ESB→ADF | 1 |
| AJI | Ağrı Airport | Agri | Turkey | ESB→AJI | 1 |
| AYT | Antalya International Airport | Antalya | Turkey | ESB→AYT | 1 |
| BAL | Batman Airport | Batman | Turkey | ESB→BAL | 1 |
| BGG | Bingöl Çeltiksuyu Airport | Bingol | Turkey | ESB→BGG | 1 |
| BGW | Baghdad International Airport | Baghdad | Iraq | ESB→BGW | 1 |
| CKZ | Çanakkale Airport | Canakkale | Turkey | ESB→CKZ | 1 |
| DIY | Diyarbakir Airport | Diyabakir | Turkey | ESB→DIY | 1 |
| ERC | Erzincan Airport | Erzincan | Turkey | ESB→ERC | 1 |
| ERZ | Erzurum International Airport | Erzurum | Turkey | ESB→ERZ | 1 |
| EZS | Elazığ Airport | Elazig | Turkey | ESB→EZS | 1 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | ESB→FRA | 1 |
| GNY | Şanlıurfa GAP Airport | Sanliurfa | Turkey | ESB→GNY | 1 |
| GZP | Gazipaşa Airport | Alanya | Turkey | ESB→GZP | 1 |
| GZT | Gaziantep International Airport | Gaziantep | Turkey | ESB→GZT | 1 |
| HTY | Hatay Airport | Hatay | Turkey | ESB→HTY | 1 |
| IGD | Iğdır Airport | Igdir | Turkey | ESB→IGD | 1 |
| KCM | Kahramanmaraş Airport | Kahramanmaras | Turkey | ESB→KCM | 1 |
| KCO | Cengiz Topel Airport | Topel | Turkey | ESB→KCO | 1 |
| KSY | Kars Airport | Kars | Turkey | ESB→KSY | 1 |
| MLX | Malatya Erhaç Airport | Malatya | Turkey | ESB→MLX | 1 |
| MQM | Mardin Airport | Mardin | Turkey | ESB→MQM | 1 |
| MSR | Muş Airport | Mus | Turkey | ESB→MSR | 1 |
| TEQ | Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport | Çorlu | Turkey | ESB→TEQ | 1 |
| TZX | Trabzon International Airport | Trabzon | Turkey | ESB→TZX | 1 |
| VAN | Van Ferit Melen Airport | Van | Turkey | ESB→VAN | 1 |
| VKO | Vnukovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | ESB→VKO | 1 |
Airlines operating at ESB
Carriers ranked by the number of routes they file from this airport.
| IATA | Airline | Country | Routes from ESB |
|---|---|---|---|
| TK | Turkish Airlines | Turkey | 34 |
| PC | Pegasus Airlines | Turkey | 9 |
| QR | Qatar Airways | Qatar | 2 |
| FG | Ariana Afghan Airlines | Afghanistan | 1 |
| IR | Iran Air | Iran | 1 |
| J2 | Azerbaijan Airlines | Azerbaijan | 1 |
| KK | Atlasjet | Turkey | 1 |
| LH | Lufthansa Cargo | Germany | 1 |
| W5 | Mahan Air | Iran | 1 |
| Z4 | Zoom Airlines | Canada | 1 |
Inbound origin airports
Where flights into ESB typically originate, ranked by the number of operators on file.
| IATA | Origin airport | City | Country | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBL | Erbil International Airport | Erbil | Iraq | 3 |
| IKA | Imam Khomeini International Airport | Tehran | Iran | 2 |
| ADB | Adnan Menderes International Airport | Izmir | Turkey | 2 |
| BJV | Milas Bodrum International Airport | Bodrum | Turkey | 2 |
| ECN | Ercan International Airport | Nicosia | Cyprus | 2 |
| SAW | Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | 2 |
| VIE | Vienna International Airport | Vienna | Austria | 2 |
| KBL | Hamid Karzai International Airport | Kabul | Afghanistan | 1 |
| GYD | Heydar Aliyev International Airport | Baku | Azerbaijan | 1 |
| MUC | Munich Airport | Munich | Germany | 1 |
| CGN | Cologne Bonn Airport | Cologne | Germany | 1 |
| DUS | Düsseldorf Airport | Duesseldorf | Germany | 1 |
| STR | Stuttgart Airport | Stuttgart | Germany | 1 |
| BEG | Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport | Belgrade | Serbia | 1 |
| DOH | Hamad International Airport | Doha | Qatar | 1 |
| MED | Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport | Madinah | Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| ADA | Adana Airport | Adana | Turkey | 1 |
| ADF | Adıyaman Airport | Adiyaman | Turkey | 1 |
| AJI | Ağrı Airport | Agri | Turkey | 1 |
| AYT | Antalya International Airport | Antalya | Turkey | 1 |
| BAL | Batman Airport | Batman | Turkey | 1 |
| BGG | Bingöl Çeltiksuyu Airport | Bingol | Turkey | 1 |
| BGW | Baghdad International Airport | Baghdad | Iraq | 1 |
| CKZ | Çanakkale Airport | Canakkale | Turkey | 1 |
| DIY | Diyarbakir Airport | Diyabakir | Turkey | 1 |
| ERC | Erzincan Airport | Erzincan | Turkey | 1 |
| ERZ | Erzurum International Airport | Erzurum | Turkey | 1 |
| EZS | Elazığ Airport | Elazig | Turkey | 1 |
| FRA | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Frankfurt | Germany | 1 |
| GNY | Şanlıurfa GAP Airport | Sanliurfa | Turkey | 1 |
| GZP | Gazipaşa Airport | Alanya | Turkey | 1 |
| GZT | Gaziantep International Airport | Gaziantep | Turkey | 1 |
| HTY | Hatay Airport | Hatay | Turkey | 1 |
| IGD | Iğdır Airport | Igdir | Turkey | 1 |
| IST | Istanbul Airport | Istanbul | Turkey | 1 |
| KCM | Kahramanmaraş Airport | Kahramanmaras | Turkey | 1 |
| KCO | Cengiz Topel Airport | Topel | Turkey | 1 |
| KSY | Kars Airport | Kars | Turkey | 1 |
| MLX | Malatya Erhaç Airport | Malatya | Turkey | 1 |
| MQM | Mardin Airport | Mardin | Turkey | 1 |
| MSR | Muş Airport | Mus | Turkey | 1 |
| TEQ | Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport | Çorlu | Turkey | 1 |
| TZX | Trabzon International Airport | Trabzon | Turkey | 1 |
| VAN | Van Ferit Melen Airport | Van | Turkey | 1 |
| VKO | Vnukovo International Airport | Moscow | Russia | 1 |
How to read this page
The destinations table is the core of an airport profile. It tells you, at a glance, where you can fly directly from ESB on a published schedule. The "operators" column doesn't measure frequency. It measures how many distinct airline codes file the route. So a "3" means three different carriers list ESB to that destination, even if one of them runs the route many times a day while the others only manage it weekly. For practical trip planning, use the table as a starting list and confirm the airline's own schedule for your travel dates.
The airline list shows which carriers treat ESB as part of their network. Many will be foreign carriers running one or two flights, while a handful will use the airport as a base. To see where those carriers fly elsewhere, click through to any airline page. Each airline profile includes a route sample drawn from the same dataset.