Atatürk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey is an international airport that was named after the father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. It lies 15 km southwest of downtown Istanbul, on the European portion of the city. It has the IATA airport code IST and the ICAO airport code LTBA. This article is about the city. ... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Pasha, named Atatürk ( 1881– November 10, 1938), Turkish reformist, soldier, and statesman, was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. ... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... The IATA airport code is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ...

Atatürk International Airport is a large international airport, with two terminals, one domestic and one international. The international one was inaugurated in 2001, and is considered one of the most efficient and modern terminals in the world. The domestic terminal, although very crowded when it used to be the international, is now spacious, despite a 1970s design. Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution...

The airport has two runways, one of them oriented N-S and the other NE-SW.

Main Terminal

• Adria Airways
• Aeroflot
• Aero Lloyd
• Air France
• Alitalia
• Ariana Afghan Airlines
• Asiana Airlines- codeshare only
• Atlas Jet
• Azerbaijan Airlines
• Belavia
• British Airways
• Cyrus Turkish Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• El Al
• Emirates
• Eurasia Air Company
• Fly Air
• Free Bird Airlines
• Germanwings
• Iran Air
• Kibris Turkish
• KLM
• LTU International
• Lufthansa
• Malaysia Airlines
• MNG Airlines
• Olympic Airlines
• Onur Air
• Pegasus Airlines
• Qatar Airways
• Scandinavian Airlines System
• Singapore Airlines
• Swiss International Airlines
• TAROM
• Turkish Airlines
• Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation

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External link

• Atatürk Airport Homepage (http://www.dhmiata.gov.tr/)