Hatay Airport guide

Hatay Airport (ICAO LTDA) sits on the drained bed of Lake Amik, on flat ground in the Amik plain. It opened on 9 December 2007 and is run by the General Directorate of State Airports (DHMI). The terminal is designed for about 4 million passengers a year.

Traffic grew from 162,128 passengers in 2008 to a peak of about 1.3 million in 2018. The February 2023 earthquake badly damaged the runway and closed the airport. It reopened on 13 February 2023 after the runway was repaired, and passenger numbers fell to 183,908 that year before recovering to 288,706 in 2024 and 506,499 in 2025. A 2,720 m auxiliary runway was later brought into service, and work on the main runway, taxiways and terminal strengthening continued afterwards.

The airport mainly links Hatay with Istanbul and Ankara. Turkish Airlines, Pegasus and AJet fly the domestic routes. Pegasus also serves Northern Cyprus, and flynas has flown to Riyadh.