Istanbul New Airport
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Istanbul New Airport İstanbul Yeni Havalimanı |
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| Operator | IGA (Istanbul Grand Airport) Havalimanı İşletmesi A.Ş. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Istanbul, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Arnavutköy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 41°18′04″N 28°46′36″E / 41.30111°N 28.77667°ECoordinates: 41°18′04″N 28°46′36″E / 41.30111°N 28.77667°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www |
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 Istanbul New Airport
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| Annual Passenger Capacity | 150 million |
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Istanbul New Airport (Turkish: İstanbul Yeni Havalimanı), or Third Airport (Turkish: Üçüncü Havalimanı), is an international airport under construction in Arnavutköy district on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey.
The airport is planned as the largest airport in the world, with a 150 million passenger annual capacity, and was planned due to lack of capacity in the existing airports of Istanbul. It will be the third international airport to be built in Istanbul after Istanbul Atatürk Airport and Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. Atatürk Airport will be closed down once the new airport is operational. As of March 2017, around 40% of the construction of the airport was completed. The commercial opening of the airport could be October 29, 2018.
The existing Atatürk Airport, Istanbul's main airport, located on the European side of Istanbul, is surrounded by urban Istanbul and is incapable of cost effective expansion to meet increasing demand. Additionally, there is an increasing problem of air traffic congestion. Atatürk Airport itself became the third busiest airport in Europe in 2015, edging out Frankfurt Airport for the first time. However by 2017, Atatürk Airport fell back on the 5th place behind Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
There is no space to build an additional runway on the Atatürk Airport site, as the airport is within the city of Istanbul. Industrial areas are situated north of the airport, with residential areas to the west and east of it. Because of the limited capacity, the Turkish Airspace Authority does not allow additional cargo or charter flights to the airport. Airlines that want to start new routes or add additional flights cannot do so. Due to lack of slots and parking spaces, some of Turkish Airlines' aircraft are based in Sabiha Gökçen Airport, which is on the Asian side of Istanbul. Sabiha Gökçen Airport itself is already at maximum terminal capacity of 25 million passengers, and handled 28 million passengers in 2015 after posting traffic growth rates averaging over 20% a year since 2013.
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