Sabiha Gökçen Airport

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen Uluslararası Havalimanı
IATA: SAW ICAO: LTFJ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	HEAŞ (Airport Management & Aeronautical Industries Inc)
Operator	Malaysia Airports
Serves	Istanbul, Turkey
Location	Pendik
Hub for	AnadoluJet Borajet Pegasus Airlines Turkish Airlines
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Elevation AMSL	312 ft / 95 m
Coordinates	40°53′54″N 29°18′33″E / 40.89833°N 29.30917°E / 40.89833; 29.30917Coordinates: 40°53′54″N 29°18′33″E / 40.89833°N 29.30917°E / 40.89833; 29.30917
Website	sabihagokcen.aero
Map
SAW Location of airport in Northwest Turkey
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 06/24 3,000 9,842 Concrete
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 29,577,735 Passenger change 15–16 5% Aircraft movements 206,180 Movements change 14–15 19.3%
Source: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL Passenger Traffic, ACI Europe

Passengers	29,577,735
Passenger change 15–16	5%
Aircraft movements	206,180
Movements change 14–15	19.3%

Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) is one of the two international airports serving Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, the other being Atatürk Airport. Located 35 km (22 mi) southeast of central Istanbul, Sabiha Gökçen is on the Asian side of the bi-continental city and serves as the hub for Pegasus Airlines as well as a base for Turkish Airlines and Borajet. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the first female combat pilot in Turkey and adoptive daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding President of the Republic of Turkey.

The airport was built because Atatürk International Airport (located on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international). In June 2007, Turkish conglomerate Limak Holding, India's GMR Group and Malaysia Airport Holding Berhad (MAHB) consortium gained the contract for upgrading and maintaining the airport. In mid-2008, ground was broken to upgrade the international terminal to handle 25 million passengers annually. The new terminal was inaugurated on 31 October 2009.

SAW's international terminal capacity originally was 3 million passengers per year and the domestic terminal capacity was 0.5 million passengers per year. In 2010, Sabiha Gökçen airport handled 11,129,472 passengers, a 71% increase compared to 2009. The airport was planning (in 2011) to host 25 million passengers by 2023, but handled more than 28 million passengers in 2015 already.