Istanbul Airport

Not to be confused with Istanbul Atatürk Airport, which is now serving cargo flights, and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, another important airport of Istanbul.
For other uses, see Istanbul Airport (disambiguation).

Istanbul Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTFM) (Turkish: İstanbul Havalimanı)[3] is the main international airport serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the Arnavutköy district on the European side of the city.

All scheduled commercial passenger flights were transferred from Istanbul Atatürk Airport to Istanbul Airport on 6 April 2019, following the closure of Istanbul Atatürk Airport for scheduled passenger flights.[4] The IATA airport code IST was also transferred to the new airport.[5] Once fully completed, it will accommodate 200 million passengers a year.[6]

History

Terminal building exterior
Check-in area interior

Background

Due to a lack of space to construct an additional runway at Istanbul Atatürk Airport, airport growth being restricted due to the growth of the city, the Turkish Airport Authority not allowing additional cargo or charter flights to the airport, and worsening air traffic congestion, it was decided to construct a new airport to serve Istanbul. Furthermore, due to a lack of slot capacity and parking spaces, some of Turkish Airlines' aircraft were based in Sabiha Gökçen Airport[citation needed] which 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.[citation needed]

Atatürk Airport was one of the busiest airports in Europe. Since 2013, it has ranked among the five busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic. In 2017, the two Istanbul airports handled over 100 million passengers.[7] In terms of area airports, the six London-area airports serve more than 150 million passengers a year, while the three Paris-area airports serve around 100 million passengers a year.

Location

It was decided to construct the new airport at the intersection of roads to Arnavutköy, Göktürk, and Çatalca, north of central Istanbul and between the Black Sea coast towns of Yeniköy [tr], Tayakadın and Akpınar. The area is a 7,659-hectare region near Lake Terkos. Some 6,172 hectares of this area was state-owned forest. The distance between Istanbul Airport and Atatürk Airport is approximately 35 km (22 mi). The area encompassed old open-pit coal mines, which were later filled up with soil.[8]

According to the Environmental Impact Assessment (ÇED) report published in April 2013, there were a total of 2,513,341 trees in the area and 657,950 of them would need to be cut indispensably, while 1,855,391 trees would be moved to new places. However, the Ministry of Forest and Water Management claimed the exact number of trees cut and moved would only be revealed after construction was complete.[8]

Construction

Location of Istanbul Airport relative to the city center of Istanbul, as well as the city's other two airports.

The tender for construction and operation of the facility until 2030 was held on May 3, 2013.[9] The project is made up of four construction stages. If all stages are completed, the airport will reach a capacity of 150 million passengers, which would have made it the biggest in the world at the time of planning. The first stage of construction was planned to finish within 42 months of the handover of the land. The total project cost is expected to be approximately €7 billion, excluding financing costs. The construction and operation consortium has been guaranteed 342 million passengers in 12 years by the government.[citation needed]

The design team was led by London-based Grimshaw[10] and also included the Norway-based Nordic Office of Architecture and London studio Haptic.[citation needed]

At the bidding session on May 3, 2013, only four out of fifteen Turkish and two foreign companies that were qualified as bidders showed up. The Turkish joint venture consortium of Cengiz-Kolin-Limak-Mapa-Kalyon won the tender, and were obliged to pay the government €26.142 billion including value-added tax for a 25-year lease starting from 2018. The completion date of the construction's first stage was officially set for 2018 – 42 months after the finalization of the tender's approval.[8]

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 7 June 2014,[11] though construction only started in May 2015 after the land was officially handed over.[12]

The inauguration of the airport took place on the planned date of 29 October 2018. It was reported that the first test landing at the airport would take place on February 26, 2018; however, the first landing took place on 20 June 2018.[13] Testing of navigational and electronic systems with DHMİ aircraft had begun on 15 May 2018.[14]

Project stages

The construction of the airport is taking place in several stages, expanding the airport and its facilities over time.[9][15][16][17]

The first stage consists of the main terminal, with an annual passenger capacity of 90 million and an area of 1,440,000 m2 (15,500,000 sq ft) – making it the world's largest airport terminal building under a single roof,[18] despite Dubai International Airport Terminal 3 having a larger floor area at 1,713,000 m2 (18,440,000 sq ft) due to tunnels connecting its two concourses. There will also be two pairs of parallel runways connected to eight parallel taxiways to the west of the main terminal, approximately 4,000,000 m2 (43,000,000 sq ft) of apron space, and an indoor car-park with a capacity of 12,000 vehicles. In addition, the airport will feature three technical blocks for repairs, maintenance, and fueling, as well as an air traffic control tower, eight ramp control towers, and hangars for cargo and general aviation aircraft.[19] Several other services are also to be in operation, including hospitals, frequent-flyer and VIP lounges, prayer rooms, convention centers, and hotels; some of these are expected to form part of the Istanbul Airport City project.[20]

The second stage will add a third independent runway to the east of the main terminal, as well as a fourth remote runway with an east-west heading and additional taxiways and apron areas. The third stage is planned to add a second passenger terminal with a capacity of 60 million annual passengers and an estimated area of around 960,000 m2 (10,300,000 sq ft), as well as an additional runway and a new support facilities area. The final and fourth stage of expansion will, along with adding another runway, allow for the construction of satellite terminals with a combined capacity of 50 million passengers and area of up to 800,000 m2 (8,600,000 sq ft) if needed.[19]

Once fully completed by 2027,[17] the airport will have six sets of runways (eight in total), 16 taxiways, and a total annual passenger capacity of 150 million passengers.[18][21] If fully expanded to a capacity of 200 million, the airport will exhibit four terminal buildings with interconnecting rail access that combine for a total indoor area of 3,200,000 m2 (34,000,000 sq ft). The airport will also have a 6,500,000 m2 (70,000,000 sq ft) apron with a parking capacity of 500 aircraft, VIP lounges, cargo and general aviation facilities, a state palace, and indoor and outdoor parking that can accommodate up to 70,000 cars. A medical center, aircraft rescue and firefighting stations, hotels, convention centers, power plants, and wastewater treatment facilities will also be built.

Controversies

The Turkish Chamber of Environmental Engineers (ÇMO) took the project tender to court on grounds that the project violated the existing legislation for the preparation of the Environmental Impact Assessment (ÇED) report.[8] In February 2014, an Istanbul administrative court ordered construction of the airport to be suspended.[22] However, the groundbreaking ceremony took place a few months later, on 7 June 2014.[11]

A report published in Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet in February 2018 claimed that more than 400 workers had been killed during the construction of the airport, with accidents killing three to four workers every week, and families of the killed workers being paid to remain silent about the incidents.[23][24] Turkish daily Evrensel also alleged that fatal accidents continued to occur.[24] This prompted opposition MP Veli Ağbaba to submit a written questionnaire to the Turkish parliament on 13 February 2018. In response, the Turkish Ministry of Labour and Social Security claimed that there were only 27 fatalities during the construction of the airport.[25]

Mass worker protests broke out on 14 September 2018 after a bus carrying workers crashed, injuring 17. Complaints by workers included poor living conditions in "vermin-infested dormitories", issues in transportation that had left them stranded under the rain or on site during holidays, and long delays in payments, among others.[26][27] Police and gendarmerie forces were called in and workers eventually returned to work under alleged threats of arrest or further withholding of wages.[26]

On 19 December 2018, part of the airport site was flooded after heavy rain.[28]

Operations

The opening ceremony took place on 29 October 2018, scheduled so as to coincide with the 95th anniversary of the proclamation of the Turkish Republic.[29] The airport had been unofficially known as 'Istanbul New Airport' during construction - the new official name of 'Istanbul Airport' was announced at the opening ceremony. The first flight from the airport was Turkish Airlines flight TK2124 to the Turkish capital Ankara on 31 October 2018.[30] On 1 November 2018, five daily flights began to arrive and depart from the airport: from Ankara, Antalya, Baku, North Nicosia, and İzmir,[31] followed by Adana and Trabzon starting in December.

Before the full transfer, all flights were operated exclusively by Turkish Airlines. Regularly scheduled flights to all of the new airport's destinations continued to depart from Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports alongside these trial flights. It was originally planned that on 31 December 2018, all equipment from Atatürk Airport would be transferred to the new airport via the O-7 Motorway.[32][33] As of 17 January 2019, the transfer phase was set to start 1 March 2019.[34] However, on 25 February, the transfer phase was moved a fourth time to 5 April 2019.[35]

The full transfer of all scheduled commercial passenger flights from Istanbul Atatürk Airport to the new Istanbul Airport took place on 6 April 2019 between 02:00 and 14:00. Hundreds of trucks carried more than 10,000 pieces of equipment, weighing about 44 tons were moved to the new airport over 41 hours.[36] Istanbul Atatürk Airport's old IATA code IST was also transferred to the new airport.

Facilities

Istanbul Airport duty-free shops.

The airport currently has one terminal in service for domestic and international flights and four runways are currently in operation. The two 17/35 runways are both 4,100 metres (13,451 feet) long, while the 16/34 runways are both 3,750 metres (12,303 feet) long. Runways 17L/35R and 16R/34L are 60 metres (197 feet) wide, while 17R/35L and 16L/34R are 45 metres (148 feet) wide. All runway surfaces are asphalt.[37]

Concourses

The airport features a total of five concourses lettered A, B, D, F, and G with a total of 143 passenger boarding bridges. Concourse G, which is located in the southeast, is reserved solely for domestic flights. 3 passenger boarding bridges of Concourse F which is directly to the north of Concourse G has also been allocated for domestic flights. Concourses A, B, D, and F will be used for international flights. The C and E concourses connect directly to the main terminal and are therefore not independent concourses. Until 1 January 2019, all initial Turkish Airlines flights departed from concourses F and G.[38]

Security

3,500 security personnel and a total of 1,850 police, including 750 immigration officers, are expected to provide the airport's security.[39] The site's perimeter will be protected using ground radar, fixed CCTV cameras every 60 meters, pan–tilt–zoom cameras every 360 meters, thermal cameras and fiber optic sensors every 720 meters. The active terminal building uses up to 9,000 CCTV cameras.[40]

Transport

Although currently, the airport is only serviced from Istanbul by Havaist and İETT buses,[41] it will eventually be linked by several lines of the Istanbul Metro, with one starting from Gayrettepe station on the new M11 line and another from Halkalı on the Marmaray rail line.[42]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens[43]
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo[44]
Afriqiyah Airways Bayda, Tripoli-Mitiga
Air Albania Tirana[45]
Air Algérie Algiers, Annaba, Constantine, Oran
Air Astana Aktau, Almaty, Atyrau, Nur-Sultan
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Ariana Afghan Airlines Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif
ATA Airlines Tabriz, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
AtlasGlobal Aktau, Amsterdam, Antalya, Baghdad, Bahrain, Belgrade, Beirut, Bodrum, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Gaziantep, İzmir, Jeddah, Kuwait, London–Stansted, Makhachkala, Medina, Moscow–Domodedovo (begins 1 June 2019),[46] North Nicosia, Nur-Sultan, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Shymkent, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Yerevan, Zonguldak (begins 15 June 2019)[47]
Seasonal: Dalaman, Mykonos
AtlasGlobal Ukraine Odessa
Air Moldova Chişinău
Asiana Airlines Seoul–Incheon[48]
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku[49]
Belavia Minsk
British Airways London–Heathrow[50]
Buraq Air Tripoli-Mitiga
China Southern Airlines Beijing–Capital, Wuhan (begins 29 May 2019)[51]
Corendon Airlines Casablanca[52]
EgyptAir Cairo[53]
Emirates Dubai–International[54]
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi
Fly Baghdad Baghdad, Erbil
Ghadames Air Transport Tripoli-Mitiga
Gulf Air Bahrain[55]
IndiGo Delhi[56]
Iran Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Iran Air Tours Tabriz
Iran Aseman Airlines Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Urmia
Iraqi Airways Baghdad, Basra, Erbil, Sulaimiyah
Jazeera Airways Kuwait
Kam Air Kabul
KLM Amsterdam[57]
Korean Air Seoul–Incheon
Kuwait Airways Kuwait
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa Frankfurt[58]
Libyan Airlines Bayda, Tripoli-Mitiga
Libyan Wings Tripoli-Mitiga
Mahan Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Meraj Airlines Mashhad, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Middle East Airlines Beirut[59]
Nouvelair Tunis
Oman Air Muscat
Onur Air Adana, Anapa,[60] Antalya, Baghdad, Düsseldorf, İzmir, Kuwait (begins 4 June 2019),[61] Nalchik,[62]Odessa
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Bodrum
Pegasus Airlines Izmir
Qatar Airways Doha[63]
Qeshm Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Rossiya Airlines Saint Petersburg
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Royal Jordanian Amman–Queen Alia
Saudia Jeddah, Medina, Riyadh[64]
Singapore Airlines Singapore[65]
Somon Air Dushanbe
SCAT Airlines Aktau, Shymkent
Sichuan Airlines Chengdu
Taban Air Isfahan, Tehran–Imam Khomeini
TAROM Bucharest
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish Airlines Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Accra, Adana, Addis Ababa, Adıyaman, Ağrı, Alexandria–Borg El Arab, Algiers, Almaty, Amman–Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Ankara, Antananarivo, Aqaba, Ashgabat, Asmara, Antalya, Athens, Atlanta, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Bamako, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Banjul, Barcelona, Bari, Basel/Mulhouse, Basra, Batman, Batumi, Beijing–Capital, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin–Tegel, Bilbao, Billund, Bingöl, Birmingham, Bishkek, Bodrum, Bogotá, Bologna, Bordeaux, Boston, Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires–Ezeiza, Cairo, Çanakkale, Cancún (begins 21 August 2019),[66] Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Catania, Chicago–O'Hare, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Cologne/Bonn, Colombo, Conakry, Constanța, Constantine, Copenhagen, Cotonou, Dakar–Diass, Dalaman, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Denizli, Denpasar (begins 17 July 2019),[67] Dhaka, Diyarbakir, Djibouti, Doha, Douala, Dubai–International, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Durban, Dushanbe, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Edremit, Elazığ, Entebbe, Erbil, Erzincan, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Freetown, Ganja, Gassim, Gaziantep, Gazipaşa, Geneva, Gothenburg, Graz, Guangzhou, Hakkari, Hamburg, Hannover, Hanoi, Hatay, Havana, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston–Intercontinental, Hurghada, Iğdır, Isfahan, Islamabad, İzmir, Jakarta–Soekarno–Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg–O. R. Tambo, Kabul, Kahramanmaraş, Karachi, Kars, Kastamonu, Kathmandu, Kayseri, Kazan, Kharkiv, Khartoum, Kherson, Kigali, Kilimanjaro, Kinshasa–N'djili, Konya, Košice, Krasnodar, Kuala Lumpur–International, Kütahya, Kuwait, Kyiv–Boryspil, Lagos, Lahore, Leipzig/Halle, Libreville, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Lusaka, Luxembourg, Luxor (begins 23 September 2019),[68] Lviv, Lyon, Madrid, Mahé, Málaga, Malatya, Malé, Malta, Manchester, Manila, Maputo, Mardin, Marrakech, Marseille, Mashhad, Mauritius, Mazar-i-Sharif, Medina, Merzifon, Mexico City (begins 22 August 2019),[66] Milan–Malpensa, Miami, Minsk, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Montréal–Trudeau, Moscow–Vnukovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Muş, N'Djamena, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta, Najaf, Nakhchivan, Naples, Nevşehir, New York–JFK, Niamey, Nice, North Nicosia, Nouakchott, Nuremberg, Nur-Sultan, Odessa, Oran, Ordu-Giresun, Oslo–Gardermoen, Ouagadougou, Panama City–Tocumen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Phuket, Podgorica, Pointe Noire (begins 30 July 2019),[69] Port Harcourt (begins 24 June 2019),[70] Porto, Port Sudan (begins 27 February 2020),[71] Prague, Pristina, Riga, Riyadh, Rome–Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don-Platov, Saint Petersburg, Salzburg, Samara, Samarkand, Samsun, San Francisco, Şanlıurfa, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Sarajevo, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong, Sharm El Sheikh, Shiraz, Singapore, Sinop, Şırnak, Sivas, Sharjah, Skopje, Sochi, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Strasbourg (begins 31 May 2019),[72] Stuttgart, Sulaymaniyah, Tabriz, Ta'if, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tehran–Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Tokyo–Narita, Toronto–Pearson, Toulouse, Trabzon, Tunis, Ufa, Usak, Ulaanbaatar, Valencia, Van, Varna, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Voronezh, Warsaw–Chopin, Washington–Dulles, Yanbu, Yaoundé, Yekaterinburg, Zagreb, Zanzibar, Zaporizhia, Zonguldak,[73] Zürich
Seasonal: Friedrichshafen, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Moroni, Pisa, Rovaniemi (begins 5 December 2019)[74]
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat, Turkmenbashi
Ukraine International Airlines Kyiv–Boryspil, Odessa
Uzbekistan Airways Samarkand, Tashkent[75]
Zagros Airlines Mashhad, Tehran–Imam Khomeini

Cargo

As of April 2019, there are no regularly scheduled cargo operations at the airport. These remain at Istanbul Atatürk Airport for the time being.

Statistics

Below is the passenger data and development for Istanbul Airport for the years 2018–2019:[76]

Passenger statistics at Istanbul Airport[76]
Year Domestic
passengers 		Passenger
% change 		International
passenger 		Passenger
% change 		Total
passenger 		Passenger
% change 		World rank
international 		World rank
total
2019
(jan-apr)
1,200,705 Increase 3,529,435 Increase 4,730,140 Increase
20181 65,124 Steady 30,206 Steady 95,330 Steady Steady Steady

^1 : 2018 statistics correspond to the last 3 months of 2018 since the opening of the airport.

See also

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