Talk:Ercan International Airport

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list of places in Cyprus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.7.212.178 (talk) 19:26, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ercan is not a place name in Cyprus. This airport takes it name from the person Fehmi Ercan, not from its location. /185.118.40.1 (talk) 12:15, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

İ think it is long enough for take offs but not long enough for landings Ege Altınışık (talk) 10:00, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments in 2005 and 2006
Azerbaijan issued a declaration stating that they regard direct air links between Baku and Ercan as legal, despite opposition from the internationally recognized Cypriot government, thus making - in Azerbaijan's eyes - Ercan Airport as a ligitimate port of entry. - - Expatkiwi 23:29 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm removing the part about Azerbaijan's recognition, since Azerbaijan has backtracked and flights from Baku have not materialized. Travelbird 00:20, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Could some one provide a source for the claim that AzA is continuting charter flights into Ercan (beyond that first flight in 2005 ? Travelbird 01:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I checked the sites of Azal and Imair again and have come to the conslusion that Azal is not flying to ECN (at the moment at least). Imair doesn't list Cyprus as one of their destinations either, and ECN is not included in their summer timetable at http://www.imair.com. We'll have to see if they take up flights in the winter. Travelbird 04:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment in 2007
I have removed the following from the entry: "Greek and Cypriot authorities may deny anyone entry into either country if he/she has entered Northern Cyprus by a non-recognized airport." There was no cited source for this claim. I have been to the TRNC and then subsequently to the Republic of Cyprus and Greece, and have never had problems entering those countries. The worst that can happen is the Cypriot/Greek border official asks to cancel the TRNC passport stamp before letting the traveller on their way. I have a British passport, which is by definition an EU passport, so Greece and Cyprus (as EU members) would need a better reason than that to stop me entering those countries. daskind 18.43, 12 August 2007 (GMT)

Comment in 2009
While I believe that an article on this subject is certainly a valuable part of Wikipedia, its current state prevents it from reaching its full potential. Hopefully, someone with more knowledge on the topic than myself can help in cleaning up this article by fixing its structure and listing references. Luckyeye13 (talk) 07:46, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Removed tags for references etc
Hi all

I have removed the tags and rewritten the article with correct ref citations for most of the text.

It could do with more info though if anyone has any !

cheers--Chaosdruid (talk) 08:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Airport code
I removed "LCEN" from the page. ICAO has NOT issued a four-letter code for Ercan airport. The referenced document was a meeting report with a list of suggested airports to be included in a database. Ercan was rejected as the airport is not recognized by ICAO. lcary 6 May 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lcary (talk • contribs) 15:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Please do not removed sourced info just because you do not like it. If you have an issue about this code, please discuss it here first. And do read the provided source from the ICAO where the code is listed. Passportguy (talk) 16:22, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

ercan airport
PLEASE CORRECT THIS ARTICLE. THERE NO SUCH THING AS "TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTH CYPRUS". It is the occupied area of Cyprus, occupied nicosia, and no country in the world, beside Turkey of course, has recognized as Turkish republic of Cyprus the occupied area by the Turkish troops. The flights of Ercan Airport may cause at any moment trouble to other flights coming to the republic of Cyprus, as they do not refer to the legal authorities of Cyprus. So if you may correct your wikipedia airport. Marina Hadjicosta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.4.140.174 (talk) 18:33, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Flights not up to date
Hello, I've checked the website of Corendon Airlines as well as Onur, what would be the price for Wrócław-Ercan, respectively Bratislava-Ercan flight. I have found out those airlines no more fly from/to Wrócław and Bratislavam, these destinations are not in their sortiment at all. The list is obviously obsolete. --Zik2 (talk) 09:14, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

International destinations
We really should add the cities that are flown to from Ercan through Turkey in a single aircraft. It is done in articles about other airports, and would help people finding out from where they can board a direct (not non-stop) flight to Ercan.

What I've figured out so far is that Correndon flies to Amsterdam (via Antalya), and Pegasus to London-Stansted (via Izmir or Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen) André Devecserii (talk) 10:00, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey there. This issue has been discussed and decided before. If an airline flies A - B - C and has 5th freedom rights to transport passengers soley on A - B, only B is shown as a destination in the chart as it is the only one served directly. If there are no rights to transport passengers soley on A - B, we do state all destinations as both, B and C, are considered direct flights (usually with a footnote explaining this). As Turkish airlines DO HAVE traffic rights between North Cyprus and Turkey, only the Turkish destinations are shown. Stansted for example is therefore a direct destination from Izmir or Ankara but not from Nicosia/Ercan. The only direct flights to Europe from Northern Cyprus are charters as shown in the chart. It is not relevant that services are flown in a single aircraft, only the traffic rights matter. An example for routes where B and C are shown is Korean Air on Seoul-Vienna-Zürich has Korean has no rights to transport passengers soley between Vienna and Zürich. Hope this cleans up the confusion a bit. Additionally, WP:NOTRAVEL applies - therefore we do not help people to figure out where they can board flights. Best regards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.171.177.105 (talk) 09:54, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but this is rubbish. The guideline says "7.List non-stop and direct flights only. That means the flight number and the aircraft, starts at this airport and continues to one or more airports. Avoid using the description 'via' since that is more correctly listed as another destination. If passengers can not disembark at a stop on a direct flight, then do not list it as a destination or as 'via'. Direct flights are not always non-stop flights. However, avoid listing direct flights that contain a stop at a domestic hub, as virtually all of these are simply flights from one "spoke city" to a hub, with the plane continuing from the hub to a second spoke city. Furthermore, these flights often involve plane changes, despite the direct designation. Including these flights dramatically increases the length of destination listings, artificially inflates the airline's presence at a location and requires constant updating, as these "timetable direct" destinations have little rhyme or reason and may change as often as every week or two." André Devecserii (talk) 12:11, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Airports/page_content States that non-stop and direct flights should only be listed the definition of a direct flight is shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_flight "A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers, which may include a stop at an intermediate point" the routes to London do not change flight number so therefore they are direct flights and should be included in the table. CBG17 (talk) 21:07, 28 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes direct (one or two stop) flights should be included here. There seems to be a major misunderstanding by  about what the advice from WP:AIRPORTS says.  Andrewgprout (talk) 23:35, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

North Nicosia is the city's name not Ercan
Stop referring to the city as Ercan in airline destination lists and airport articles since its just the airports name, Wikipedia article clearly calls the city North Nicosia in title, dont drag your national Turk ways in here.202.163.108.183 (talk) 18:46, 27 October 2018 (UTC)


 * You're the one being biased (are you Greek Cypriot or Greek by any chance?) The airport's official name in use is Ercan. André Devecserii (talk) 00:22, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * What is true is that Ercan is not a place name (toponym). It is the surname of the historical person Fehmi Ercan after whom the airport has been named. So it is not a city name, just as John F. Kennedy is not a city even though one airport has the official name John F. Kennedy International Airport. The question then becomes whether Wikipedia has a rule/convention about how to list airports whose official names are from person names, not from place names. /185.118.40.1 (talk) 12:12, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

400% decrease
How could an airport possibly have a 400% decrease in passengers? You can't have a decrease of more than 100% because that's already zero! Cesarpez (talk) 17:05, 8 July 2022 (UTC)