Havaş Shuttle Bus Guide & Info - Going to and from Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

Going to and from Sabiha Gökçen International Airport without having someone to pick you up or take you at the airport is not something that you have to seriously worry about. There are several ways to travel from Sabiha Gökçen Airport to the main locations of Istanbul such as Taksim in Beyoğlu and Koztayatağı in Kadikoy.

In going to and from Sabiha Gökçen airport, you can either take a taxi, a public (IETT) bus, or the Havaş shuttle buses with non-stop services and runs daily at regular intervals right from the SAW airport to the city centers of Kozyatağı (Kadikoy), and Taksim (Istanbul's European side). Additionally, the airport shuttle bus also takes passengers to Izmit (Kocaeli province). Havaş shuttle buses depart from the Izmit Kocaeli Bus Terminal at certain hours taking passengers directly to and from the Sabiha Gökçen airport.

Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen International Airport - Guide & Information

Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW) or Sabiha Gökçen Uluslararası Havaalanı (in Turkish) is one of the major airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in Kürtkoy, Pendik at the Anatolian side (Anadolu Yakası) of the bi-continental city, about 12 km to Pendik, 40 km to Kadikoy, and 50 km to Taksim (city center of the European side of Istanbul).

This award winning airport is named after Sabiha Gökçen - the first woman combat pilot of Turkey who also happens to be the first female combat pilot in the world.

Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen International Airport was built due to the growing domestic and international passenger demands in Istanbul.  This significant growth has made Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport to cause problems for not being large enough to serve its millions of passengers.  At first, the Sabiha Gökçen International Airport's international terminal capacity was only 3 million passengers per year, and with a domestic terminal capacity of about 0.5 million passengers per year. But today, Sabiha Gökçen International Airport boasts of an international terminal which serves up to 25 million passengers annually making it as the World's Best Airport at the World Low Cost Airlines Congress in London in 2010.

Major Airports in Turkey

Turkey's international airports are located in the cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman and Trabzon. Turkish Airlines (Turk Hava Yolları - THY) is the national airline which links to all the major cities of Turkey through its domestic flights. It also has international direct flights from Istanbul to New York, other European cities, and the Middle East.