If you are travelling to any city of Turkey from any other country and you have to connect to another city in Turkey( domestic). Then this information may guide you how to transit between international terminal 1 and the domestic terminal D.
Connection
If you are planning to get a domestic flight then keep your transit time at least 90 min. The immigration at Istanbul airport ATY is always crowded and you can easily see 500-600 people standing in ques.
you can find some intersting information about IST airport at this website http://www.ataturkairport.com/en-EN/Pages/Main.aspx
Luggage Tag
All the boarding passes are mostly given at the start of the journey(ORIGIN) and see the tag of the bag ,which shows that either your luggage will go directly to the final destination or you have to take it from Istanbul and then re book again. e.g if you go to Antalya from Prague and your connection is in Istanbul then the boarding passes are given for both flights (PRG-IST and IST-AYT) and the luggage is tagged to the Antalya airport. Encase they dont give you the second flight boarding pass still your luggage will go to the final destination and you can take your boarding pass from the transfer desk at the IST airport. The list of airport in Turkey with custom control are listed below
ESB Ankara Airport Esenboga
ASR Kaisery Airport Kaisery
BJV Bodrum Airport Milas
DLM Mu la Dalaman Airport
ADB Izmir Airport Adnam Menderes
AYT Antalya Airport Antalya
Imigration at Istanbul or final destination
All international airports of Turkey has the custom control and immigration police, if you are arriving firstly to Istanbul then you need to get your passport stamped at the IST airport.
As you enter the terminal a person would be standing and shouting name of cities; that means the flight to these cities are with in 45 min and they will try to take you directly to next flight and ease the process of immigration.
Tip for quick transit
1- Check in your seat at the front rows, you will come out of plan early and will save nearly 20 min
2- walk fast . every 5 minutes the flight lands at IST, so few fast step will make the difference.
3- Open page of your visa ,keep your accommodation paper in hand at the immigration counter.
After immigration to the domestic terminal
After immigration there are belts for the luggage ,if your luggage was already checked in for the final destination then just leave for directly towards the exit. its near to belt 3 and after immigration its slightly to the left near the duty free shop .
Now you are out of the international duty free region , turn left for the domestic terminal, keep walking straight and then you will find escalators going straight but little inclined. Turn right (that's the only option you would get ) and then straight to the domestic terminal , see your gate on the screen and again go through the final checking before the gates. Find below some images of the IST airport after immigration till domestic terminal.
Photo after immigration
Belts on your left and right, exit on the front
exit in front and custom people sitting at the left side
exit 1
Turn lefr
walk straight and AVEA mobile shop is visible
entrance to the domestic terminal escalators
escalators going straight then take right
here you reach to the domestic terminal and by not taking the second exit you save time and also you don't have to do the luggage check in for entering the airport premises ( you can see the counters on the right of the picture which you skipped )
>>>>If you want to go to center of Istanbul then go straight from international arrival exit to one more exit and take taxi or Havas bus or just turn right without exiting and you will see the Metro sign ;which is 2 floor down.
HAVE A SAFE JOURNEY :)
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