Travel In Turkey is the new international airport of Istanbul today, was officially opened with the takeoff of a plane of Turkish Airlines to the capital Ankara. The complete removal of the activities of the Turkish airline is now around. The ceremony was broadcast live on Turkish state media.
The new airport, with a price tag of 10.25 billion euro is a showcase of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and has the ambition of the “largest airport in the world”. She takes in the first instance, all the activities of the current Atatürk International Airport.
Friday morning began Turkish Airlines with his move. In 45 hours time spent almost 700 trucks, almost 50,000 tons of equipment across from Atatürk International Airport to the 40 kilometers southern to Istanbul Airport, on the Black Sea. The airline also 337 of its aircraft over to its new hub. The air traffic at both airports was since Saturday 1 pm (Belgian time is 12 hours interrupted. For the relocation were also three highways dropped off.
Initially, the commissioning of the new megaluchthaven already planned for 29 October, but in June 2014 started construction ran in a delay. Therefore, Erdogan that day, the airport is only symbolic. There were since then, however, all ten flights per day invested. the
Then was also the new deadline of the end of december has not been met, which at the beginning of march was determined. Also that period was not met, allowing the operator IGA are phrases put at the beginning of april.
This weekend would also be the first international flights from the new airport is already running. At 2028 would be the hub with six runways at full throttle should run.