TAV Airports marks 20 years of operations at Ankara Esenboğa Airport
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TAV Airports celebrated the 20th anniversary of Ankara Esenboğa Airport on 13 October 2026, noting that the airport has handled 232.8 million passengers and about 1.7 million flights since its opening in 2006.
The airport now offers direct connections to 91 destinations in 35 countries, hosts flights of 18 airlines with AJet using it as a main operating base, and recorded a 12% rise in external passenger traffic and a 7% rise in internal traffic during the first eight months of 2026.
Passenger traffic grew from 4.5 million in 2006 to 14 million in 2025, and TAV extended the airport’s operating period to May 2050 in a 2022 tender.