Airport map and runways
Istanbul, Türkiye · ICAO LTFM · IATA IST
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İstanbul Airport (IST) is a large airport in Istanbul, Türkiye, with the ICAO code LTFM. It is number 8 on the ACI World list of the busiest airports, with 84.4 million passengers in 2025. It has 6 runways, from 9,250 ft to 13,451 ft long. The longest is 17L/35R. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 87 gates, 810 taxiway segments, 22 aprons and 2 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 170 airlines have 8,141 routes through LTFM. Its most frequent links are Antalya (AYT), Ankara (ESB) and Gaziemir (ADB).
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17L / 35R | 13,451 ft | 196 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 17R / 35L | 13,451 ft | 147 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 16L / 34R | 12,303 ft | 147 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 16R / 34L | 12,303 ft | 196 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 18 / 36 | 10,039 ft | 148 ft | Hard | Lit |
| 09 / 27 | 9,250 ft | 148 ft | Hard | Lit |
Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.
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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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.
Also flying here, shown by airline code: MNB, RWZ, AZO, ASL, PBD, NWS.
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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.
