Çukurova International Airport
international airport in Mersin Province, Turkey
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 Şakirpaşa 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 Şakirpaşa Airport closed to commercial passenger airlines, many airlines switched their route to the new airport for Adana, namely Çukurova Airport.
Location
The new airport was constructed at the west of Karasavran village between Çiçekli and Kargılı in Tarsus district of Mersin Province. The distance from the airport to Yenice, the main railroad junction is 7 km (4.3 mi), to Çukurova Motorway is 14 km (8.7 mi), and to Tarsus is about 20 km (12 mi). The airport is close to another project, the Kazanlı Coast Tourism Project, within the scope of Tourism centers of Mersin Province.
Çukurova is a region in mid-south Turkiye which includes the historical Cilicia of the antiquity. The Turkish provinces of Adana, Mersin, Osmaniye as well as a part of Hatay are in Çukurova. These provinces were being served by Adana Şakirpaşa Airport in the urban fabric of Adana city.
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