Istanbul Airport

The new airport is being built near the intersection of roads from the Arnavutkoy and Chataldzha regions in the north of the European part of Istanbul at the lake Terkos. The construction site occupies 7.659 hectares, about 6,172 hectares of which are forests of state ownership. The distance between the new airport under construction and Ataturk Airport is approximately 35 km in a straight line. On the construction site there are old open coal mines, which will then be covered with earth ^[5] .

According to a study by the Ministry of Agriculture of Turkey on the environmental impact of the airport project, out of 2,513,341 trees growing on the construction site, 657,950 must be cut down, while the rest will be transplanted to new places ^[5] . The new airport will be able to serve over 180 destinations, both external and internal.

During the first stage are open:

• The main passenger terminal, designed for 90 million passengers a year. Area - 1.3 million square meters. meters
• 77 teletrap
• Internal parking for 12 thousand places
• 4 runways
• 8 parallel taxiways
• Control tower

On October 29, 2018, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan opened Istanbul Airport on Turkey’s independence day ^[6] . The first flight was to Adana, then to Izmir and Baku. All stages of the construction of the airport will be completed by 2023, and in the first months the harbor will operate with partial load and will mainly serve domestic flights. ^[4] . The approximate amount of investment in the first phase of the project is $ 26 billion.

After completion of all stages of construction, “Istanbul” will have six runways , parking for 500 aircraft, as well as open and closed parking for 70 thousand cars.

He will also be able to serve up to 45 takeoffs and landings at the same time. And the maximum passenger traffic will be up to 200 million passengers by 2035.

Currently, passengers are served by 8 bus routes: ^[7]

• Private (fare from 16 to 25 Turkish lire) ^[8]

1. IST-1 - to the Yenikapı stop, from where the green subway line M2, the red line - M1 and the Marmaray line (Marmaray), one of the two underwater tunnels of Istanbul, are possible.
2. IST-2- to Tüyap area.
3. IST-3 - to the bus station Otogar, from there the red line M1 is accessible.
4. IST-7 - to the metro station Kozyatağı (Asian part of Istanbul) - then you can change to the pink metro line M4
5. IST-19 - to the metro station Taksim Square, where you can use the green metro line M2.

• State (fare from 5.2 Turkish liras depending on the form of payment) ^{[9] [10]}

1. H-2 - to the metro station Mecidiyeköy, from where you can use the green metro line M2.
2. H-3 - to Halkalı.
3. H-4 is a direct bus route from Istanbul New Airport to Ataturk Airport.

Perspectives

Initially it was assumed that the airport will be connected by several lines of the Istanbul metro to the city center by 2018: one to the Gayretepe station on the M2 line, the other to the Halkali station of the Marmaray railway line ^[11] . As of the beginning of 2019, plans have changed: the M11 metro line will be commissioned in 2019 - 2020. ^[7]

As of the beginning of 2019, only Turkish Airlines has transferred part of the flights to a new airport ^[12]

In the first three months after the official opening, the airport served 187,553 passengers. ^[13]

In the period from April 6 to April 30, 2019, the passenger traffic amounted to 4 113 956 people. ^[14]

• Istanbul Ataturk Airport
• Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport

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