Travel Glossary

There are two codes assigned to the airports with the aim of controlling the cargo and passenger transportation. One of these codes is assigned by IATA.

What is IATA?

IATA is the abbreviation form of an association founded to inspect and assign the cargo and passenger transportation fares. It stands for the International Air Transport Association. Airline companies meeting the requirements of ICAO can be a member of IATA.

What Does IATA Do?

IATA aims at providing a good and efficient service for both passengers and airline companies. IATA provides specialty in high speed, eligibility, safety, productivity. IATA works through a membership program. In seminars and meetings organized at specific periods, various issues of countries are solved.

• IATA defines the standards of air transportation.
• IATA creates a fair competition among airline companies.
• IATA designates the cargo transportation procedures.
• IATA defines the standards for terminal designs and its management
• IATA takes up a role in the standardization process of the utilized equipment.

How to Assign IATA Airpoet Codes?

IATA code assigned to the airport by IATA consists of 3 letters and created through the airport and city names. Codes are mostly generated with the letters chosen from a city’s name. 2-character codes of airports are given in 1930 for the first time. Then three-character codes started to be used. To prevent any possible confusion X was added to the end of the old codes.  

Airports You Can Go with Pegasus

Adana-Şakirpaşa Airport - ADA

Ağrı Ahmed-i Hani Airport - AJI

Almaty International Airport - ALA

Amasya Merzifon Airport - MZH

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport - AMS

Ankara Esenboğa Airport - ESB

Antalya Airport - AYT

Athens Elefterios Venizelos International Airport - ATH

Baghdat International Airport - BGW

Bahrain International Airport - BAH

Balıkesir Koca Seyit Airport - EDO

Barcelona International Airport - BCN

Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport - BSL-MLH-EAP

Batman Airport - BAL

Belgrad Nikola Tesla Airport - BEG

Berlin Schönefeld Airport - SXF

Beirut Refik Hariri International Airport - BEY

Bingöl Airport - BGG

Bishkek - Manas International Airport - FRU

Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport - BLQ

Bruxel Güney Charleroi Airport - CRL

Budapest Airport - BUD

Genevre Airport - GVA

Jeddah Kral Abdulaziz International Airport - JED

Dalaman Airport - DLM

Denizli Çardak Airport - DNZ

Diyarbakır Airport - DIY

Moscow Domodedovo Airport - DME

Dubai International Airport - DXB

Düsseldorf International Airport - DUS

Elazığ Havalimanı - EZS

Ercan International Airport - ECN

Erzincan Airport - ERC

Erzurum Airport - ERZ

Frankfurt Airport - FRA

Gaziantep Airport - GZT

Gazipaşa Airport - GZP

Hamad International Airport - DOH

Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel Airport - HAM

Hannover Airport - HAJ

Kharkiv Airport - HRK

Hatay Airport - HTY

Henri Coandă International Airport - OTP

Hurghada International Airport - HRG

Milano Bergamo Airport - BGY

İstanbul Atatürk Airport - IST

İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport - ADB

Kahramanmaraş Airport - KCM

Kars Harakani Airport - KSY

Kastamonu Airport - KFS

Kayseri-Erkilet Airport - ASR

Konya Airport - KYA

Copenhagen Airport - CPH

Köln Bonn Airport - CGN

King Khalid International Airport - RUH

Queen Alia International Airport - AMM

Krasnodar International Airport - KRR

Kuwait International Airport - KWI

Kyiv International Airport  - IEV

London Stansted Airport - STN

London-Gatwick Airport - LGW

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport - LWO

Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport - LYS

Madrid Barajas International Airport - MAD

Malatya-Erhaç Airport - MLX

Mardin Airport - MQM

Marseille Provence Airport - MRS

Milas-Bodrum Airport - BJV

Mineralnye Vody Airport - MRV

Muş Airport - MSR

Münih Franz Josef Strauss Airport - MUC

Nürnberg Airport - NUE

Ordu-Giresun Airport - OGU

Oslo-Gardermoen Airport - OSL

Osh International Airport - OSS

Paris-Orly Airport - ORY

Prague-Václav Havel Airport - PRG

Pristina Uluslararası Havalimanı - PRN

Roma - Fiumicino – Leonardo da Vinci Airport - FCO

Sabiha Gökçen Airport - SAW

Samsun Çarşamba Airport - SZF

Sarajevo International Airport - SJJ

Sinop Havalimanı - NOP

Sivas Nuri Demirağ Airport - VAS

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport - ARN

Stuttgart Airport - STR

Süleymaniye Airport - ISU

Şanlıurfa GAP Airport - GNY

Sharm El Sheikh International Airport - SSH

Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport - IKA

Tekirdağ Çorlu Airport - TEQ

Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion International Airport - TLV

Tbilisi International Airport - TBS

Tirana International Airport - TIA

Trabzon Airport - TZX

Skopje Airport - SKP

Van-Ferit Melen Airport - VAN

Vienna International Airport - VIE

Zaporizhzhia International Airport - OZH

Zürih Airport - ZRH

Venice Marco Polo Airport - VCE

Muscat Airport - MCT

İstanbul Airport - ISL

Sharjah International Airport - SHJ

Rotterdam The Hague Airport - RTM

Leipzig-Halle Airport - LEJ