Large-scale project for reconstruction and expansion of the Antalya-Gazipasa International Airport is completed. The entire volume of work carried out by investment company TAV Airports, which is the operator of the airport.
Runway airport extended towards the sea for 500 m, and is now a total length of 2500 meters. To implement this project under a new section of the runway was built a tunnel through which is now undergoing a state route Antalya-Mersin (D400).
As a result, land and take off at the airport of Antalya-Gazipaşa in all weather conditions can almost any medium and long-haul airliners (except giants such as Airbus A380 and Boeing 747). Number of aircraft parking has been increased from 3 to 6. In addition, the expanded three times the passenger terminal building: it has an area of 6400 square meter, the number of passport control counters has been increased from 5 to 14.
All together, this will increase the volume of traffic to lift passenger traffic Antalya-Gazipasa from the current 450 thousand to 1.5 million people a year.
The updated Airport is ready to cooperate with new airlines in the near future it is planned to introduce a lot of additional flights.
Already from the airport of Antalya-Gazipaşa send and receive direct flights to 19 cities in 8 countries in Europe (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Cologne, Stuttgart, Munich and Frankfurt in Germany, Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Oslo, Stavanger and Bergen in Norway, Copenhagen, Aalborg and Billund in Denmark, Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland, Vilnius in Lithuania, Brussels in Belgium) and Beirut in Lebanon, Tehran in Iran, Tripoli in Libya. During the summer, 2 times per week flies charter flights from Vnukovo airport (Moscow). Domestic flights connect the airport of Antalya-Gazipaşa with Ankara (Esenboğa Havalimanı Airport), Istanbul (Sabiha Gökçen Airports and stanbul Istanbul Ataturk Airport) and Adana airport
Antalya-Gazipaşa Airport is a 30-minute drive from Alanya and just 15 minutes from Mahmutlar. Those facilities that creates an international airport, allow us to count on a large additional potential for the development of the tourist flow in the Alanya region, as well as a significant increase in the interest of foreigners to purchase residential real estate in one of the most comfortable Turkey's Mediterranean coast regions.
