Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

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Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Sabiha Gökçen Havalimanı
An aerial photo of the international terminal
IATA: SAW – ICAO: LTFJ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Limak-GMR-MAHB Consortium, ISG
Location		Istanbul, Turkey
Elevation AMSL		312 ft / 95 m
Coordinates		40°53′54″N 029°18′33″E / 40.89833°N 29.30917°E / 40.89833; 29.30917 (Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport)Coordinates: 40°53′54″N 029°18′33″E / 40.89833°N 29.30917°E / 40.89833; 29.30917 (Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport)
Website		http://www.sabihagokcen.aero
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
06/24	3,000	9,842	Concrete
Source: Turkish AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Sabiha Gökçen International Airport [1] (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) is one of the airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the first female combat pilot in the world. Located 35 km (22 mi) southeast^[1] of central Istanbul, it is on the Asian side of the bi-continental city. It was built because the Atatürk International Airport (on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international). SAW's international terminal capacity is 3 million passengers per year and the domestic terminal capacity is 0.5 million passengers per year. In June 2007, Turkish conglomerate Limak, 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 October 31st 2009. Istanbul's 2nd Airport To Reach 25 Million Passengers By 2023. ^{[2] [3]}

Contents 1 International flights terminal 1.1 Materials 1.2 Operation mode 1.3 Gallery and platform 1.4 Electronic systems 1.5 Illumination system 1.6 Air conditioning system 1.7 Fire extinguishing system 1.8 Luggage systems 1.9 Doors 2 Airlines and destinations 3 Domestic terminal 4 Traffic Statistics 5 References 6 External links

[edit] International flights terminal

The International flights terminal has an area of 20,000 m² (220,000 sq ft) consisting of 16,000 m² (170,000 sq ft) ground floor and 4,000 m² (43,000 sq ft) mezzanine level. It features:

• 3,000,000 passenger/year capacity.
• CIP and VIP lounges
• Duty-free shops, bars and cafés, pubs and restaurants
• Post Office, Bank, Rent-a-Car
• Offices

[edit] Materials

Granite used in flooring and on external faces; decorative aluminum modules used for illumination fixtures, audio speakers, ventilation diffusers on the ceiling.

[edit] Operation mode

International Flights Terminal consists of three lounges: two operating for departures, A and B, and one for arrivals. Each departure lounge accommodates 11 check-in counters and 4 boarding gates, and arrival section contains 12 passport counters.

[edit] Gallery and platform

Galleries, interconnecting the transformer, VIP buildings and other units of the airport, are located 6 m below the ground. An indoor platform structure of 200 m in length with an area of 3,000 m² is located to the north of the building as a stand alone structure with steel construction on reinforced concrete columns. Platform structure is also utilized as a passenger reception canopy.

[edit] Electronic systems

Electronic systems include Flight Information Display System (FIDS), Closed Circuit Television System (CCTV), Card Access Control System, Central Clock, Public Address and Music Broadcasting, Automatic Fire Detection and Carpark Fare Systems.

[edit] Illumination system

[edit] Air conditioning system

• 30 centralised air-conditioners
• 110 individual comfort modules

[edit] Fire extinguishing system

• Two jockey pumps
• Two main fire pumps

The water pressurized in the fire pumping system is kept available for utilization at any time through fire cabinets, installed at various sections within the building and platform floor and sprinklers installed 2.80 m (9 ft 2 in) below thereof.

[edit] Luggage systems

A fully automatic luggage conveyor system to cope with all luggage handling processes of the 3,500,000 passengers every year capacity is installed. The conveyor system is capable of detecting all kinds of explosives, brought by the passengers or incoming with the luggage.

[edit] Doors

There are 44 fully automatic, photocell doors. Doors opening to the exterior are equipped with air screens with electrical heaters so as to prevent the conditioned air balance of the building interior.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia	Sharjah
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
AMC Airlines	Cairo
Azerbaijan Airlines operated by Turan Air	Ganja
Blu-Express	Rome-Fiumicino (begins December 17)
Cham Wings Airlines	Damascus
Cyprus Turkish Airlines	Ercan, London-Stansted
Dagestan Airlines	Makhachkala
easyJet	London-Gatwick, London-Luton
easyJet Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse
Germanwings	Berlin-Schönefeld [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund [seasonal], Hamburg [seasonal], Stuttgart [all flights move to Istanbul-Atatürk 9 February]
Jazeera Airways	Kuwait
Kish Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Stockholm-Arlanda
Pegasus Airlines	Adana, Amsterdam, Ankara, Antalya, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bodrum, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, İzmir, Kayseri, Krasnodar,Konya, Linz, London-Stansted, Malatya, Munich, Samsun, Stuttgart, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zürich
Sky Georgia	Tbilisi
Starline.kz	Aktobe
SunExpress	Adana, Amsterdam, Ankara, Antalya, Berlin-Schönefeld [ends 26 March], Bodrum, Cologne/Bonn, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Hamburg, Hannover, İzmir, Kayseri, Malatya, Munich, Samsun, Sivas, Stuttgart, Trabzon, Van
Taban Air	Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Mashhad
Tailwind Airlines	Bilbao, Brussels, Madrid
Turkish Airlines	Amsterdam, Ankara, Antalya, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bodrum, Cologne/Bonn, Dalaman, Hanover, İzmir, London-Stansted, Moscow-Domodedovo, Stuttgart
Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet	Ankara, Bodrum

[edit] Domestic terminal

The building consists of an intermediate section serving for the check-in processes and luggage services, and passenger departure and arrival halls.

It features:

• 2,000 m² (22,000 sq ft) utilization area
• 500,000 passengers/year capacity
• Cafeteria
• Offices
• Cargo terminal:
  • 90,000 tons/year capacity
  • 18 cold storage depots

[edit] Traffic Statistics

İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics

Year (months)	Domestic	International	Total
2009 (first 9 months)*	3,053,628 (+48.3%)	1,375,526 (+19.7%)	4,429,154 (+38.1%)
2008 (all)	2,764,856 (+9.3%)	1,516,337 (+27.2%)	4,281,193 (+15.1%)
2007 (all)	2,528,549 (+17.4%)	1,191,946 (+56.2%)	3,720,495 (+27.6%)
2006 (all)	2,153,561 (+284.7%)	762,893 (+65.9%)	2,916,454 (+186.0%)
2005 (all)	559,824 (+5,323.1%)	459,922 (+95.5%)	1,019,746 (+315.2%)
2004 (all)	10,323 (+265.3%)	235,278 (+52.3)	245,601 (+56.3%)
2003 (all)	2,826	154,346	157,172

(*) Preliminary data. Source: DHMI.gov.tr^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

• Sabiha Gökçen International Airport's official site
• Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Satellite Photo
• Current weather for LTFJ at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for SAW at Aviation Safety Network

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