Malatya Erhaç Airport

Malatya Airport

*Malatya Havalimanı*
Malatya Airport; Malatya Havalimanı
	IATA: MLX; ICAO: LTAT;
Summary
Airport type	Public /Military
Operator	General Directorate of State Airports Authority
Location	Malatya, Turkey
Elevation AMSL	862 m / 2,828 ft
Coordinates	38°26′07″N 038°05′27″E / 38.43528°N 38.09083°ECoordinates: 38°26′07″N 038°05′27″E / 38.43528°N 38.09083°E
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Runways
	Sources: DHMİ and DAFIF

Malatya Airport (Turkish: Malatya Havalimanı) (IATA: MLX, ICAO: LTAT) is a military and public airport in Malatya, Turkey. The airport, opened in 1941, is located 34 km (21 mi) from Malatya.

History[]

Being the first built and put into service, airport Malatya has come into use since 1941 in Old Malatya now called Battalgazi. However, the airport was then deployed to another place; lastly, in May 1941 it was built in the area which has been still used. Our airport has been actively used in one of the most developed cities of the East; the distance to the city centre is 34 km; yearly passenger capacity is 100.000 in international line, 900.000 in domestic line and totally it is 1.000.000. plane capacity is 17.250. there is 6 scheduled flight of Civil aviation. The airport is used both for civil and army forces and right of use is in the hands of General Directorate of State Airports Authority and Air Force Command.

Due to its strategic geographical position, Airport Malatya is used by the nearby cities; as a result of the improvements in the aerospace sector, there has been an increase of 100% both in the flights and the number of passengers. Therefore; our building has become inadequate for meeting the need. Shortly, after the tender,s our new building has been built. It was started to be built in 2009 according to the international standards; the length of the runway is 3350x45mt; the first flight was on 23 October 2010. With our new runway, our passenger number has reached to 1.000.000 yearly, in the past, this number was only 300.000 passengers.

2nd Land Aviation Regiment[]

Next to Erhaç Airport, there is the 2nd Land Aviation Regiment Command. It is administered under the rank of colonel. Turkish-made TAI/AgustaWestland T129 ATAK combat helicopters joined the Command in 2014.^[4]

Airlines and destinations[]

Airlines	Destinations
AnadoluJet	Ankara, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
SunExpress	Izmir Seasonal: Antalya,^[5] Düsseldorf,^[6] Frankfurt^[5]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul

Traffic Statistics[]

Annual passenger traffic at MLX airport. See source Wikidata query.

**Malatya Erhaç Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics**
Year (months)	Domestic	% change	International	% change	Total	% change
2011 *	548,412	9.0%	17,075	2.0%	565,487	9.0%
2010	503,820	15.0%	16,683	30.0%	520,503	12.0%
2009	439,057	0.2%	23,827	6.9%	462,884	0.2%
2008	438,226	8.0%	25,591	77.0%	463,817	10.0%
2007	407,026		14,418		421,444

(*)Source: DHMI.gov.tr^[7]

References[]

^ (in Turkish) Malatya Hava Meydanı Archived 1 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
^ "Airport information for LTAT". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
^ Airport information for LTAT at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
^ "5 ATAK helikopteri Malatya'da" (in Turkish). Sabah. 10 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "SunExpress Announces 2021 Summer Program". ftnnews.com. 23 February 2021.
^ Liu, Jim (3 September 2020). "SunExpress 01-19SEP20 International operations as of 30AUG20". routesonline.com.
^ Statistics