Rize–Artvin Airport (Turkish: Rize–Artvin Havalimanı) is an airport off the coast of in Rize Province, northeastern Turkey.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Serves | Rize and Artvin | ||||||||||
Location | Yeşilköy, Pazar, Rize, Turkey | ||||||||||
Opened | 14 May 2022 (4 months ago) (2022-05-14) | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°10′09″N 40°49′44″E | ||||||||||
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It opened for commercial business on 14 May 2022, with Turkish Airlines, soon followed on the same day with AnadoluJet. On 3 July 2022, Pegasus Airlines also began operating to the airport.
The airport is situated off the coast of Yeşilköy village in Pazar district of Rize Province.[1][2] It is 34 km (21 mi) east of Rize and about 75 km (47 mi) west of Artvin.[3] It was constructed on ground obtained through filling a part of the Black Sea shore by rocks brought from nearby quarries in Merdivenli, Hisarlı, Kanlımezra and Kuzeyce. To fill the up to 30 m (98 ft)-deep sea,[3] at least 85 million tons of rock is required.[1][2][4] The airport building covers an area of 4,500 m2 (48,000 sq ft), and the runway is 3,000 m (9,800 ft) long at 45 m (148 ft) width parallel to seashore.[2][5] The construction works began with groundbreaking in 2017. It is the country's second airport of its sort following Ordu–Giresun Airport.[2][3][5][6] It is expected that the airport will serve about two million passengers annually. The construction cost was budgeted to ₺750 million (approx. US$206 million).[5]
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AnadoluJet[7] | Ankara, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen |
Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen |
Turkish Airlines | Istanbul[8] |
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