Antalya City Blog visits Isparta Suleyman Demirel Airport

Antalya City Blog visited Suleyman Demirel Airport as a guest. of Isparta Suleyman Demirel Airport Safety Branch Manager Mr. Ercan Demir.  

Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airpot is founded in 1997 and it is situated between the  cities Isparta and Burdur. The airport received the name of the 9th Prime Minister of Türkiye Süleyman Demirel, who had been born in Isparta city.

Passenger Terminal is 5400 m² and has a total (domestic and international) capacity of 1.500.000 passengers per year.

The aerodrome has a concrete runway with the dimensions of 3000x45 meters, an apron with 5 aircraft stands, and a single taxiway connecting them. The resistance of the runway is 120 PCN, whereas the apron resistance is 100 PCN.

There are 3 sheduled flight from Istanbul to our airport (Turkish Airlines-THY). Days and hours as follows;

                                                   Monday           Wednesday                 Friday

Expected Arrival Time              14:50                    14:50                      14:50

Expected Departure Time        15:30                   15:30                       15:30

In summertime, touristic charter flights are launched from several Iran cities to Isparta. Due to increasingly intense training activities which are operated throughout the entire year, the vast majority of the aerodrome`s air traffic is consisted of VFR training flihgts.

A newly constructed maintanence hangar at the aerodrome is expected to be put into service.

Isparta Suleyman Demirel Airport Safety Branch Manager Mr. Ercan Demir

Thanks to Mr. Ercan Demir on behalf of Antalya City Blog.

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Romantic Honeymoon in Antalya City

Antalya has long been viewed as one of the most romantic destinations for travelers and couples. Couples planning a honeymoon often want to visit the city simply to see the sights, untouched beaches and famous attractions. People came to Antalya and walked away in love. It’s a magical place and you should feel it!   

Antalya is set on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, also known as the Turkish Riviera. It is Turkey’s biggest international sea resort. The City offers superb beach resort facilities and long stretches of golden sands, with a fine selection of significant historical sites. The city is loved by many for its palm lined streets, charming marina, delicious restaurants, excellent shopping, cosmopolitan nightlife and lots of historical attractions. Each year, millions of people visit Antalya. Fantastic for families, couples and even the more experienced traveler, Antalya’s mix of traditional, cosmopolitan and family friendly activities will ensure everyone will enjoy a holiday in Antalya!

The city includes sites with traces of Lycian, Pamphylian, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman- architecture and cultures. Also, you can find beautiful beaches in the city center such as Konyaalti, Lara and Karpuzkaldiran. If you want to live in both historical and modern times, together, you should go to the Kaleici where is the historical center of the city; now restored as the touristic centre of the city with its hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants, and shopping. Kaleici retains much of its historic character, its restoration having won the Golden Apple tourism award. Also, in Kaleici, you can see great historical monuments include the City Walls, Hıdırlık Tower, Hadrian's Gate, the Clock Tower, Broken Minaret, Fluted Minaret, etc. Moreover, you can visit Islamic buildings in the city, including Karatay Moslem Theological School, Ahi Yusuf Mesjid, skele, Murat Pasha, Tekeli Mehmet Pasha, Balibey, Musellim, Seyh Sinan Efendi, and Osman Efendi Mosques, etc.

Antalya is an attractive city with shady palm-lined boulevards and a prize-winning marina. On the picturesque old quarter, Kaleici, has narrow, winding streets and old wooden houses abut the ancient city walls. 

Antalya is one of the uncomman place in the world that you can ski and swim in the same time. The Mediterranean is full of fabulous beaches, each with something special to offer. From Cleopatra's Beach in Alanya to Taormina in Sicily. Top romantic Mediterranean Beaches are in Antalya. When love is in the air, there is no better place to go than on an ocean voyage on the Mediterranean Sea. In Antalya Mediterranean evenings are special, you can spend romantic times at Mediterranean sunset in Antalya City. 

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Lufthansa flies to Antalya

Germany’s Lufthansa Airline opened its fifth route to Turkey on April 2 with a new Munich-Antalya route.There are return flights once a week. An Airbus A321 takes off from Munich at 1:10 p.m. every Saturday and lands on Antalya Airport at 5:10 p.m. The same aircraft takes off from Antalya at 6:05 p.m. and lands at Munich airport at 8:20 p.m. In Munich, one of the most modern airports in the world, passengers arrive at the T2 Terminal, from which they connect to other destinations in Europe. The flights take a total of three hours and 15 minutes. 

“This further strengthens our position in Turkey,” Lufthansa Turkey General Manager Gregor Wende, said, noting the importance of the Turkish market. “We are happy to have scheduled flights to Antalya.” Lufthansa has been running Turkish routes since 1956 and has the largest market share among foreign airlines. The company has a total of 73 flights per week from Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Bursa. With the inclusion of the new route

from Antalya, the number of flights per week has increased to 74.

Doğan News Agency (DHA)

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The World`s Best Golf Courses in Antalya-Belek

One of the main attractions of Belek is its six superb golf courses. Belek has been particularly developed as an attractive golfing holiday destination. It is one of Turkey`s premier golf centers with a world-class 18-hole golf course where both the novice and the expert can hone their skills. The golf clubs are paired into two groups within ten minutes driving distance of each other. Most of the hotels and golfing resorts are located in between adding to the tourists` convenience.

Here at Belek Area, seven golf clubs are grouped in two pairs separated by a ten minute drive with most of the hotels in between. All ready to serve you not only sunshine and secluded beaches but also the unique and hidden golf treasure of our Antalya.

Golf courses; In planing the course, the architecs took into special account the wishes and expectations of Europen golfers. The perfect sight of the golf courses present the wonderful panorama and landscape of the neighborhood while providing the golf players with terrifie golf pleasure and struggle.Some annex fields are being planned for the development of the golf facilities. There are daily, even hourly tours from all resorts and holiday villages at the neighborhood to the golf field and bookings are available via these tours and clubs.

The golf facilities enable individuals and groups to play throughout the twelve months of the year including the winter sunshine period that averages over six sunshine hours a day. Records show over 300 days of sunshine annually for the region.

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Turkey’s first ice bar opens in Antalya

Black Ice Bar, Turkey’s first and just one of seven ice bars in the world, opened at the Antalya Ramada Hotel on Thursday. In the bar, the tables, glasses, seats, floors and walls are all ice. The bar’s temperatures is -8 degrees Celsius all the time. The Ice Bar is decorated with ice sculptures and colored with different lights. 

Entrance fee is 16 euros, including a free beverage. Customers are allowed to stay inside for 45 minutes. At the end of each session, customers can pass to another bar in the hotel.

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