Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

Introduction

Sabiha Gokcen International (SAW), is an airport on the Asian side of Istanbul and is the city's second airport, after Istanbul Atatürk International Airport. Some 50 kilometres or so from Sultanahmet (on the European side) this is where many of the domestic airlines and budget airlines arrive and depart.

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

Getting there and away

Havas has shuttles to Taksim, Kadikoy, and Levent, which cost 10 YTL for a single journey. A local bus (E-10) which gets you to Kadikoy for YTL 2.60. A 30-minute ferry ride will then get you to the European side: Eminonu.

Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

For more information about airlines, also see the list of airlines and the details about flying with budget airlines.

• Air Arabia - Sharjah
• Air Arabia Maroc - Casablanca
• Air Batumi - Tbilisi
• Air Moldova - Chişinău
• Air Urga - Nikolaev
• AMC Airlines - Cairo
• Anadolujet Domestic - Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, İzmir, Konya, Trabzon, Van; International - Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London-Stansted, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Nakchchivan, Stockholm-Arlanda
• Azerbaijan Airlines operated by Turan Air - Ganja
• Blu-express - Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
• Borajet - Adana, Alanya, Ankara, Antalya, Diyarbakır, Nevsehir, Siirt, Tokat, Trabzon, Van, Zonguldak
• Cimber Sterling - Copenhagen
• Corendon Airlines - Amsterdam, Brussels, Eindhoven, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv
• Dagestan Airlines - Vladikavkaz, Makhachkala
• Dubrovnik Airlines - Dubrovnik
• easyJet - London-Gatwick, London-Luton
• easyJet Switzerland - Basel/Mulhouse
• Flydubai - Dubai
• Freebird Airlines - Madrid, Tehran
• Germanwings - Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Stuttgart
• Itali Airlines - Catania, Palermo
• Jazeera Airways - Kuwait
• Jetairfly - Brussels, Charleroi
• Jordan Aviation - Amman
• Kish Air - Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tabriz
• Kuban Airlines - Krasnodar
• Moldavian Airlines - Chişinău
• Norwegian Air Shuttle - Oslo
• Pegasus Airlines Domestic - Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Gaziantep, Hatay, İzmir, Kayseri, Konya, Malatya, Samsun, Trabzon, Van; International - Amsterdam, Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Ercan, Frankfurt, Hanover, Kharkiv, Krasnodar, Linz, London-Stansted, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Munich, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fuimicino, Saint Etienne, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgrat, Tehran-İmam Khomeini, Vienna, Zurich
• Saga Airlines - Tehran
• Saratov Airlines - Nalchik
• Sham Wings Airlines - Damascus
• Spanair - Barcelona
• Starline.kz - Aktobe
• SunExpress - Adana, Amsterdam, Antalya, Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Bodrum, Cologne/Bonn, Diyarbakır, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Erzincan, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Hamburg, Hannover, Hatay, İzmir, Kars, Kayseri, Malatya, Mardin, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nürmberg, Samsun, Sivas, Stuttgart, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zürich
• Taban Air - Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Mashhad
• Tailwind Airlines - Bilbao, Brussels, Madrid
• Transavia.com - Amsterdam
• Turkish Airlines - Ankara, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Münich
• Vueling Airlines - Barcelona
• Wataniya Airways - Kuwait
• Wizz Air - Budapest
• Zagros Airlines - Tehran

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