Adana Airport was constructed on a farmland at the Şakirpaşa area, 2.3 km west of the historical city centre. It was opened to service as a civil-military airport in 1937 and became a full civil airport in 1956. Passenger traffic at Adana Airport is doubled since 2011, hitting a record in 2018 with 5,630,674 passengers. Due to economical downturn in Turkey, total number of passenger dropped for the first time in 10 years in 2019 with 10 percent. There are 436 weekly departures to 23 routes from the airport, connecting the region to 8 destinations in Turkey, 11 in Germany, 3 in the Middle East and one in N.Cyprus. Ercan is the shortest, Hamburg is the longest route. Route to both airports in İstanbul, is one of the busiest in Turkey, with 201 departures weekly, almost half of the total flights.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
Passenger figures
Year
Domestic
% change
International
% change
Total
% change
2019
4,309,453
-13%
744,730
6%
5,054,183
-10%
2018
4,929,255
-0.6%
701,419
8.0%
5,630,674
0.4%
2017
4,960,627
2.0%
649,549
-9.0%
5,610,176
0.4%
2016
4,884,395
7.0%
710,235
-2.0%
5,594,630
5.0%
2015
4,643,199
14.0%
726,061
15.0%
5,369,260
15.0%
2014
4,057,291
8.0%
630,203
12.0%
4,687,494
9.0%
2013
3,754,227
20.0%
561,551
-11.0%
4,315,778
15.0%
2012
3,136,143
18.0%
628,014
7.0%
3,764,157
16.0%
2011
2,651,873
9.7%
589,094
39.1%
3,240,967
14.1%
2010
2,417,630
17%
423,540
2%
2,841,170
14.0%
Route statistics
Ground transportation
Local buses/minibuses, coaches, airline shuttles, trains and taxi serve ground transportation to or close to the airport.
Adana Metropolitan Municipality local buses #135 and #159, run from the airport to the neighbourhoods of Seyhan, Çukurova and Sarıçam. Bus #159 is a 35-minute interval service that connects airport to the old town, metro, Central railway station, and routes further north, ending in Kurttepe, close to the lake. Bus #135 is an hourly service to Balcalı. Several local buses and minibuses that run east-west on the D400 state road, stop at the Airport intersection, 800 metres north of the airport terminals. Coach transport to the provinces surrounding Cilicia, run from the Central Coach Terminal, 3.9 km west of the airport entrance. Coach companies' shuttle services from the city centre to the Central Coach Terminal have stops at the Airport Intersection on the D400 state road.
