The sector is held by AJet and Pegasus.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ESB Ankara to ADB Izmir
Esenboga Airport, Türkiye, to Adnan Menderes, Türkiye. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 543 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 18m
- Door to door
- 8h 03m
What ESB to ADB looks like
The ESB to ADB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Ankara ESB to Izmir ADB is a short sector of 543 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 543 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 18m.
Ankara ESB is a large airport in the network held here, 85 scheduled destinations and 178.3 departures a day. Izmir ADB has 94 destinations and 151.3 departures a day.
Ankara and Izmir keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ESB to ADB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESB to ADB | 13.29 | 93 | AJet, Pegasus |
| ADB to ESB | 13 | 91 | AJet, Pegasus |
Two carriers hold the sector, AJet and Pegasus, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 13.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 184 departures a week on ESB to ADB, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 18m block time on ESB to ADB. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ESB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ESB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ESB to ADB in the air, estimated | 78 min | 5h 48m |
| Formalities at ADB | 90 min | 7h 18m |
| Delivery run in Izmir | 45 min | 8h 03m |
| Door to door | 483 min | 8h 03m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ESB to ADB is 8h 03m.
A courier who leaves Ankara at 09:00 local is on the ground in Izmir at about 10:18 local and at the door by 12:33 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Izmir, the last useful departure from Ankara is around 14:27 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 36 of them join ESB to ADB.
| Connecting at | ESB to hub, flights a day | Hub to ADB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul SAW | 18.57 | 19.91 | 667 | 3h 14m |
| Antalya AYT | 11.86 | 3.29 | 763 | 3h 22m |
| Istanbul IST | 16.57 | 19.29 | 739 | 3h 36m |
| Belgrade BEG | 0.71 | 0.71 | 2,084 | 4h 55m |
| Vienna VIE | 2.29 | 2.29 | 2,964 | 6h 02m |
| Baku GYD | 2.71 | 1.71 | 3,420 | 6h 22m |
With 13.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
36 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Istanbul SAW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 18.6 times a day.
Through SAW the routing covers 667 km against the 543 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 14m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 56m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Antalya AYT at 3h 22m and Istanbul IST at 3h 36m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Izmir, Kos KGS is 167 km away by great circle and carries 72 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Ankara to Izmir yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ESB to ADB in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
More pairs through ESB and ADB: Dusseldorf to Izmir, Stuttgart to Izmir, Izmir to Dubai, Hannover to Izmir, Hamburg to Izmir, Eindhoven to Izmir, Cologne to Izmir, Izmir to Beirut.