Erzurum International Airport guide

Erzurum Airport sits about 11 km from the centre of Erzurum, the largest city in eastern Anatolia's highland region. It opened in 1966 as a military field, and the Turkish Air Force Command still shares it with civil traffic. International non-scheduled flights began in 1993, and a new passenger terminal entered service in 2005.

The airport has two parallel concrete runways, each 3,810 m long. That length is far beyond what scheduled airliners need and reflects the base's military role. Civil flights run from the single passenger terminal, which offers a staffed car park and an annual capacity of about 2 million passengers.

Scheduled service is mostly domestic. Turkish Airlines, AJet and Pegasus fly to Istanbul, and AJet also links Erzurum with Ankara and Bursa. SunExpress adds routes to Izmir and Antalya, with seasonal flights to Düsseldorf. The airport handled about 1.3 million passengers in 2025, nearly all of them on domestic routes. Winter traffic rises when skiers travel to the nearby Palandöken resort.