{"id":168537,"date":"2025-01-21T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/instanbul-secondary-airport-flying-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:00:14","slug":"why-you-might-fly-out-of-istanbuls-secondary-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=168537","title":{"rendered":"Why You Might Fly Out Of Istanbul&#8217;s Secondary Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of major European cities have more than one airport that serves as a gateway for international flights, and the city of Istanbul is no exception. While Istanbul Airport (IST) serves as the city&#8217;s principal international gateway and the hub for global legacy carrier Turkish Airlines, a second smaller but still important facility plays a key role in facilitating international air travel. While Istanbul Airport is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, north of the city,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"378187\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Sabiha Gokcen International Airport<\/span><\/span> (SAW) is located on the Asian side of the narrow body of water, south of the city&#8217;s business district and core hubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of daily flights depart from the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,1608,5161,12220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-european-aviaton","category-hub-airports","category-sabiha-gokcen-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168538,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168537\/revisions\/168538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}