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Here is a list of relevant airports:

Antalya - St Paul Trail and Lycian Way. Antalya has a modern airport handling 10 million passengers per year, only 12km E of the city. Bus from the domestic terminal to the city every half hour.

Dalaman - Lycian Way. Dalaman has a modern international airport handling several million passengers per year. It is 40km W of Fethiye.

Erzurum - Kaçkar (South side) Erzurum airport is mainly a domestic airport closed at night. It is 15km from the city, with a bus service to the terminal.

Trabzon - Kaçkar (North side) Trabzon has domestic and international terminals and is only about 5km E of the city. Coast road buses pass the gate.

Airlines:

Turkish airlines/Anadolu Jet (THY): All internal airports to Istanbul/Ankara; many external destinations www.turkishairlines.com

Pegasus Airlines: Istanbul, Antalya - European and Russian destinations; Trabzon - Europe and Georgia. www.flypgs.com

Sun Express: Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria (all year around) to Antalya, Bodrum, Istanbul. www.sunexpress.de

Air Berlin: Germany to Antalya. www.airberlin.com

Onur Air: Istanbul to Trabzon and Erzurum; UK, Germany, France, Denmark, to Antalya and Dalaman; Spain to Istanbul. www.onurair.com.tr

Sky Airlines: German airports to Antalya. www.germanskyairlines.com. Istanbul, Ankara to Trabzon, Dalaman, Antalya; www.skyairlines.net/tr

Atlas Jet: Istanbul to some Turkish and eastern destinations www.atlasjet.com

Thomas Cook (chartered): Many UK destinations to various Turkish airports. www.thomascook.com

Transport from Airport - Antalya: A city bus runs to the bus garage from outside the domestic terminal every half-hour. Havas runs a shuttle bus to Antalya ring road and the bus garage from the domestic terminal several times per day. Otherwise the only transport is by taxi, costing about 35 MTL/15 Euros to the town centre and a bit more to the main bus garage.

Dalaman Airport: A 3-4 km taxi ride from Dalaman bus station and town. From there, frequent buses go to Fethiye and Antalya up to 12 midnight.

Trabzon: frequent buses from outside the airport along the coast road.

Erzurum: Bus to the bus station after each flight

Bus services: The overnight buses are one of the wonders of Turkey –they run on time, are clean and well serviced and are comparatively cheap. www.bilet.net/otobus is a good starting point; they also have train information.

Dolmuşes
Minibuses called dolmuşes run in towns and between villages. Usually they run at set times, starting early in the morning and finishing at about 6 or 7 pm (later in towns).

 


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