Çukurova International Airport
Çukurova International Airport
Çukurova International Airport (IATA: COV, ICAO: LTDB) is an airport in the Tarsus district of Mersin Province, southern Turkey. It serves the provinces Mersin and Adana. The airport was built in order to replace its predecessor Adana ?akirpa?a Airport due to the old airport’s location of being in the city centre, and had no room to expand or be modernised. When Adana ?akirpa?a Airport closed to commercial passenger airlines, many airlines switched their route to the new airport for Adana, namely Çukurova Airport.
Location
36.891°N, 35.071°E · 11 m s. n. m. (35 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
History
The construction contract was signed on 26 January 2012. According to a statement made by Binali Y?ld?r?m, Minister of Communications, Maritime affairs and Telecommunications, it is a build-operate-transfer project. The undertaker is a consortium of "Skyline" and "Zonguldak Özel Sivil Havac?l?k". The builders have the right to operate the airport for a term of nine years and ten months. The minister added that the airport will have international status and will so help to increase the export of the region and the number of tourists. According to the newspaper Hürriyet, the project's cost will be 357 million Euro. When finished, it will serve to 15 million people, and the capacity will be doubled in the future. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on 28 May 2013. In the ceremony, then-Minister of Transport Binali Y?ld?r?m explained that the location of the airport was carefully chosen to serve both Adana and Mersin. The formal opening ceremony of the new airport took place on 10 August 2024. Adana ?akirpa?a Airport closed at 00:00 on 11 August 2024 to all commercial airlines, and Çukurova Airport opened at 12:00 on 11 August 2024. The inauguration was done by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.
Airlines operating here · 9
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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BibTeX
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title = {{Çukurova International Airport (COV)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
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howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/COV}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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