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.
Most flights from Sabiha Gökcen International Airport are to Dusseldorf and to Dubai but there are many more flights to other destinations as well, most of them by Pegasus Airlines. These are the most popular destinations from Sabiha Gökcen International Airport:
Dusseldorf (DUS)
Dubai (DXB)
Amsterdam (AMS)
Vienna (VIE)
Jeddah (JED)
Antalya (AYT)
Doha (DOH)
Paris (PARA)
Kuala Lumpur (XKLA)
Madrid (MAD)Ankara (ESB)Kayseri (ASR)
