Istanbul Airport

İstanbul New Airport (Turkish: İstanbul Yeni Havalimanı) is a projected airport to be built in Arnavutköy district of İstanbul, Turkey. The airport is planned to be the largest airport in the world with 150 million passenger capacity due to lack of capacity in the existing airports of Istanbul.

Origin

Existing Atatürk Airport in European side of Istanbul does not meet increased demands of slots to use any more. There is no required space to build an additional runway in covered all four sides of Atatürk Airport. Because of the limited capacity, the new cargo and charter flights are not allowed. Airlines who want to start new routes and/or to add additional flights are urgently need new capacity. Especially Turkish Airlines planned to gather all flights in Atatürk Airport which reached to limits of capacity. Therefore some aircrafts of Turkish Airlines is based in Sabiha Gökçen Airport which in Anatolian side of Istanbul. Sabiha Gökçen Airport is a bit far to European city center according to Atatürk airport. Due to transfer strategy of Turkish Airlines, most of passengers preferred Atatürk Airport instead of Sabiha Gökçen Airport. Resutlt of studies to maximize of capacity of Atatürk Airport, general aviation and training flights have been minimized. According to results of 2012, Istanbul handled about 60 million passenger by two airports.

Location

The new airport will be constructed at the intersection of junction roads of Arnavutköy, Göktürk and Çatalca, north of European side of Istanbul about the Black Sea coast. Construction zone will be 3500 hectares region near Terkos Lake. 80 percent of the area is owned to state. Fly distance between Istanbul New Airport and Atatürk Airport is about 35 km. The area where the old coal mines to be filled with soil.

The project

The tender for construction and 25-year-operate will be held on May 3, 2013 according to a statement made by Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Communications, Maritime affairs and Telecommunications. The project is made up of four construction stages. After all stages completed, the airport will be the biggest airport of the world with 150 million passenger capacity. First stage construction is planning to finish in 42 months after the delivery of area. The total project cost is expected to be approximately EUR 7 billion, excluding financing costs. It has guaranteed 342 million passengers for 12 years.

First Stage

• A main terminal total of 90 million passengers capacity, capable of all kinds of equipment for the use of passengers with an area of 680,000 square meters.
• Second terminal building or two satellite terminal. (170,000 square meters)
• 88 aircraft passenger bridges at terminals
• Indoor parking with 12,000 vehicles capacity
• 3 independent runway accordance with international norms, such as large-bodied A380, B777 aircraft could easily up and down
• 8 parallel taxiway
• Approximately 4 million square meters apron
• 3 technical blocks,
• 1 air traffic control tower
• VIP Lounge
• Cargo and general aviation terminals
• Other social reinforcement areas where in hospitals, prayrooms, convention centers

Second Stage

• 1 runway
• 3 parallel taxiway

Third Stage

• A terminal with a capacity of 30 million passengers where will build at sea side in an area of 500,000 square meters
• 1 runway
• 1 parallel taxiway
• Apron

Fourth stage

• A terminal with a capacity of 30 million passengers where will build in an area of 340,000 square meters
• 1 runway

At the End of the Stages

• 6 runway
• 16 taxiway
• 150 million passengers capacity
• 1,400,000 square meters indoor area
• 165 aircraft passenger bridges at all terminals
• 4 terminal buildings where rail access between terminals
• 3 technical blocks
• 1 air traffic control tower
• 8 ramp control tower
• 6,5 million meter square apron with 500 aircraft parking capacity
• VIP Lounge
• Cargo and general aviation terminals
• State Palace
• Indoor and outdoor parking with a capacity of about 70 thousand cars
• Aviation medical center
• ARFF buildings
• Garage buildings
• Hotels
• Convention centers
• Power plants
• Water treatment and waste facilities