The Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is the second airport serving Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, and is located on the Asian side of the city. The airport opened in 2006 to ease congestion at Ataturk Airport but due to the success of Turkish Airlines the new airport was already operating at its maximum capacity of 25 million passengers in ten year; jumping from nothing to 12th busiest airport in Europe. The airport is named after the first female combat pilot, and adoptive daughter of Ataturk.
Sabiha Gökcen International Airport is not a large airport so there are not many flights departing here. There are only a few destinations that you can reach from Sabiha Gökcen International Airport, most of these are operated by AirAsia X. Many people take a flight to Kuala Lumpur and transfer to another flight there.
Kuala Lumpur (XKLA)