Antalya Airport handled 39,000,177 passengers in 2025, which makes it the third-busiest airport in Turkey — behind Istanbul Airport and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen, and ahead of every other airport in the country. Each figure below is dated and attributed, because the numbers that circulate for this airport are mostly out of date.
Passengers a year
39,000,177 in 2025, up from 38,133,273 in 2024 — growth of about 2.3 percent. For scale, Istanbul Airport handled 84,513,937 in 2025 and Sabiha Gökçen 48,407,318, so Antalya is third rather than second: the ranking that puts it second usually treats the two Istanbul airports as one city. The airport's operator counted more than 100 airlines flying to close to 250 destinations in April 2025.
How many flights a day
There were 240,141 aircraft movements in 2025, three percent more than in 2024. Spread evenly that is about 660 take-offs and landings a day — and the average is the least useful number on this page, because Antalya's traffic is built around the summer charter season. A February day and an August day are not the same airport.
The busiest day on record
2 August 2025: 1,225 flights and 228,427 passengers in twenty-four hours, an all-time record for the airport, announced by Turkey's Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. That is roughly double the yearly daily average in flights, which is the clearest way to see how seasonal this airport is.
Runways
Three, and all three are parallel, which is what lets the airport absorb the summer peaks: 18L/36R at 3,400 metres, 18C/36C also at 3,400 metres, and 18R/36L at 2,990 metres.
Terminals, and what was just built
Three terminals: International Terminal 1, open since April 1998, International Terminal 2 since 2005, and the Domestic Terminal since 2010. The expansion finished in 2025 added more than 160,000 square metres — 132,000 of them at Terminal 2 and 38,000 at the domestic terminal — for an investment of about 850 million euros, with a new air traffic control tower due by the end of 2026. Which flights use which building is on the terminals page.
Who owns it and who runs it
The airport belongs to DHMİ, Turkey's General Directorate of State Airports Authority. The terminals are operated by Fraport TAV Antalya, a joint venture of Fraport and TAV Airports, which has run them under successive concessions since 2007. The current award dates from 2021 and covers 25 years from 1 January 2027 to the end of 2051.
Is there another airport in Antalya?
One more, and it is small: Gazipaşa–Alanya (GZP), about 40 kilometres from Alanya at the eastern end of the province, handled 1,051,608 passengers in 2024 — around one fortieth of Antalya Airport. For most of the coast, including Side, Belek and Kemer, AYT is the arrival airport; getting from it to the resorts is a separate guide.
Where these numbers come from
Annual passengers and the national ranking are DHMİ's published series; movements are the 2025 total from the same statistics; the record day was announced by the transport ministry and reported by Anadolu Agency; the expansion, airline and destination counts and the concession term come from the operator's own April 2025 release. Where a figure has a year attached, it is because the same figure without a year is what makes airport statistics wrong.