Aircraft losing height on their way in, nearest first. On the track at the right of each row, the airport is the tick at the far left and the scale runs out to 30 nm. The time shown is straight-line distance at the aircraft's current groundspeed, so it reads short: real approaches are flown around a pattern, not direct. The radius is kept at 30 nm because Istanbul Airport is only 34 nm away, but its arrivals still descend through the edge of this ring, so not every row is bound for Sabiha Gökçen. Positions come from a volunteer ADS-B receiver network, so coverage is best at altitude and thins out close to the ground.

Aircraft still in the climb after departure, lowest first.

Both runways at Sabiha Gökçen are parallel and share the same alignment, 064.10° / 244.12° true. The L and R suffixes exist to tell the two parallel strips apart, not because they point in different directions. That means a ground track can show which way the airport is running, but it cannot single out which of the two runways an individual aircraft is using.

• 24R06L3,000 m
• 24L06R3,540 m

A green bar marks the ends facing the direction currently in use. Runway dimensions are from the Turkish AIP (DHMİ, AD 2 LTFJ), baseline 2024-12-26. Whether an individual runway is open at this moment needs a NOTAM, which no free public feed currently provides.

06R/24L is the second runway and the longer of the two. Until 30 September 2025 the 24L direction was used for departures only, because of obstacles on the approach; landings on 24L began once that clearance work was finished. Both directions of both runways are in use now.

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Forecast · TAF

IATA / ICAO

SAW / LTFJ

Elevation

312 ft · 95 m

Reference point

40.8983°N 29.3092°E

Time zone

Europe/Istanbul · UTC+03:00

Runway alignment

064.10° / 244.12° true, both parallel

Magnetic variation

6.1° east

Runway 06L/24R

3,000 × 45 m · 9,843 ft

Runway 06R/24L

3,540 × 60 m · 11,614 ft

Passengers, 2025DHMİ, final

48,407,318

Aircraft movements, 2025DHMİ, final

275,537

Passengers, Jan–Jun 2026DHMİ, provisional

23,525,494

Movements, Jan–Jun 2026DHMİ, provisional

135,535

DHMİ leaves Sabiha Gökçen out of its own network totals, because the airport is run by a private operator under the oversight of the Presidency of Defence Industries rather than by DHMİ itself. The counts above are therefore taken from DHMİ's per-airport tables, not from its headline figures.