No plane lands at airports in 4 provinces in 2022
No aircraft used the 4 idle airports in Turkey in 2022. Aydın Çıldır, Balıkesir Merkez, Çanakkale Gökçeada and Uşak Airports did not serve any aircraft or passengers. The number of aircraft using the 19 airports also remained below 1000.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil KARAISMAILOGLU says “Turkey has become the fastest developing country in the aviation sector in the world under the AKP government.” However, the figures for the year 2022 do not confirm this.
No aircraft used 4 airports in Turkey, in 2022. Aydın Çıldır, Balıkesir Merkez, Çanakkale Gökçeada and Uşak Airports did not serve any aircraft or passengers. The number of aircraft using the 19 airport also remained below 1000. Only 10 planes landed at Kocaeli Cengiz Topel Airport. 404 aircraft used Siirt Airport and 509 aircraft used Tokat Airport. The number of planes using Rize-Artvin Airport, which came to the agenda with the instruction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “Planes are empty, fill them up” was 3 thousand 28.
