Istanbul Atatürk Airport (IATA: ISL, ICAO: LTBA) (former IATA code: IST)
(Turkish: İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı) is an international airport in Istanbul.
First opened in 1912 in Yeşilköy as a military airfield, on the European side of the city, it is located 24 km (15 mi) west of the city centre. The airport was originally named Yeşilköy Airport. In the 1980s, it was renamed Istanbul Atatürk International Airport in honour of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. It served more than 60 million passengers in 2015, making it the 11th-busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic and the 10th-busiest in the world in terms of international passenger traffic. In 2017, it was Europe's 5th-busiest airport after London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt Airport and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. As of 6 April 2019, the airport is open only for cargo, maintenance/technical, general aviation, air taxi, business flights and state and diplomatic aircraft while commercial passenger flights are all handled at the newly built Istanbul Airport.
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