{"id":2635,"date":"2015-02-26T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2015-03-06T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T14:22:39","slug":"istanbul-ataturk-airport-duty-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/istanbul-ataturk-airport-duty-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Ataturk Airport Duty Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Match any journey through Istanbul Ataturk\u00a0Airport to the duty free and luxury shopping available on departure, inflight and on arrival with <a title=\"Home\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Duty Free Hunter<\/a>.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"arrivals_departures\">\n<p><b>Istanbul Atat\u00fcrk Airport<\/b> (<a title=\"International Air Transport Association airport code\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Air_Transport_Association_airport_code\">IATA<\/a>: <b>IST<\/b>,\u00a0<a title=\"International Civil Aviation Organization airport code\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization_airport_code\">ICAO<\/a>: <b>LTBA<\/b>) (<a title=\"Turkish language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkish_language\">Turkish<\/a>: <span lang=\"tr\" xml:lang=\"tr\"><i>\u0130stanbul Atat\u00fcrk Havaliman\u0131<\/i><\/span>) is the main international <a title=\"Airport\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Airport\">airport<\/a> serving <a title=\"Istanbul\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Istanbul\">Istanbul<\/a>,<a title=\"Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a> (followed by <a title=\"Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en International Airport\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabiha_G%C3%B6k%C3%A7en_International_Airport\">Sabiha G\u00f6k\u00e7en International Airport<\/a>) and the biggest airport in <a title=\"Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkey\">Turkey<\/a> by total number of passengers. Opened in 1924 and located in <a title=\"Ye\u015filk\u00f6y\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ye%C5%9Filk%C3%B6y\">Ye\u015filk\u00f6y<\/a>, on the European side of the city, it is 24\u00a0km (15\u00a0mi) west\u00a0of the city centre and functions as the main hub for <a title=\"Turkish Airlines\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkish_Airlines\">Turkish Airlines<\/a>. In 1980, the airport was renamed Atat\u00fcrk International Airport in honor of <a title=\"Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk\">Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk<\/a>, the founder and first president of the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Republic of Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Turkey\">Republic of Turkey<\/a>. It served over 51 million passengers in 2013, making it the <a title=\"World's busiest airports by passenger traffic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic\">17th busiest airport in the world<\/a> in terms of total passenger traffic and the <a title=\"World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_international_passenger_traffic\">10th busiest in the world<\/a> in terms of international passenger traffic. It was <a title=\"Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\">Europe<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"List of the busiest airports in Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Europe\">4th busiest airport<\/a> in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers lists Atat\u00fcrk International Airport as one of the <a title=\"Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fifty_civil_engineering_feats_in_Turkey\">fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey<\/a>, a list of remarkable engineering projects completed in the first 50 years of the chamber&#8217;s existence.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2013 Air Transport News awards ceremony, \u0130stanbul Atat\u00fcrk Airport was named <i>Airport of the Year<\/i>.\u00a0Also, the airport has been named\u00a0<i>Europe&#8217;s Best Airport<\/i> in the 40-50 million passenger per year category at the 2013 <a title=\"Skytrax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skytrax\">Skytrax<\/a> World Airport Awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_message message_box_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; style=&#8221;rounded&#8221; message_box_color=&#8221;violet&#8221; icon_type=&#8221;fontawesome&#8221; icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-shopping-cart&#8221; icon_openiconic=&#8221;vc-oi vc-oi-dial&#8221; icon_typicons=&#8221;typcn typcn-adjust-brightness&#8221; icon_entypo=&#8221;entypo-icon entypo-icon-note&#8221; icon_linecons=&#8221;vc_li vc_li-heart&#8221; icon_pixelicons=&#8221;vc_pixel_icon vc_pixel_icon-alert&#8221;]<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Want to find the best place to buy Duty Free on your journey? <strong><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" title=\"Duty Free Hunter Shopping\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">START HERE &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_message][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2637&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; img_size=&#8221;190&#215;180&#8243; style=&#8221;vc_box_rounded&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<h3 class=\"h5\"><strong>Istanbul Ataturk\u00a0Airport\u00a0Duty Free Shops<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Duty Free and luxury boutiques at this airport include:<\/p>\n<p>atu Duty Free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Match any journey through Istanbul Ataturk\u00a0Airport to the duty free and luxury shopping available on departure, inflight and on arrival with Duty Free Hunter.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[40,69,42,259,260,216],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airport-duty-free-information","tag-airport","tag-duty-free","tag-shopping","tag-tax-free","tag-tfwa","tag-travel-retail"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}