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Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW)

Pendik, Istanbul, Türkiye · ICAO LTFJ · IATA SAW

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Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (LTFJ)06R24L06L24R
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 8 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Pendik, Istanbul, Türkiye
ICAO code
LTFJ
IATA code
SAW
Elevation
312 ft
Longest runway
11,614 ft (06R/24L)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Passengers, 2025
48.4 million, number 46 in the world
Position
40.8986, 29.3092

About LTFJ

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW) is a large airport in Pendik, Istanbul, Türkiye, with the ICAO code LTFJ. It is number 46 on the ACI World list of the busiest airports, with 48.4 million passengers in 2025. Its two runways are 06R/24L and 06L/24R. The longer one, 06R/24L, is 11,614 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 20 gates, 132 taxiway segments, 10 aprons and 3 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 85 airlines have 7,774 routes through LTFJ. Its most frequent links are Antalya (AYT), Gaziemir (ADB) and Ankara (ESB).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
06R / 24L11,614 ft197 ftHardNot lit
06L / 24R9,843 ft148 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Pegasus PGT5,456 routes
  • Turkish THY804 routes
  • SunExpress SXS28 routes
  • Qatar QTR22 routes
  • ASL TAY14 routes
  • flydubai FDB11 routes
  • FedEx FDX9 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: TKJ, GWI, KNE, CAI, SXD, AHY, MNB, PBD.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.