Çukurova International Airport (IATA: COV, ICAO: LTDB) is an airport in the Tarsus district of province Mersin in southern Türkiye. It serves the provinces of Mersin, Adana and Osmaniye, as well as the rest of the region of Çukurova. 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.
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, to Çukurova Motorway is 14 km and to Tarsus is about 20 km.
Flights are available to and from over 120 destinations, across the rest of Türkiye, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Çukurova
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. However, the increasing air traffic necessitates a higher capacity airport.
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