The new airport of Istanbul is the aviation center of Europe of the future. Its opening is the main aviation event this year. Mega hub, which expands opportunities today and lays a solid foundation for the growth of air travel in the coming decades. It is astounding in scale.
THE NEW AIRPORT OF ISTANBUL IN NUMBERS:
- it is the largest airport in the world under one roof
- area 1 300 000 sq.m.
- 52 thousand sq.m. duty free stores
- 22 thousand sq.m. Business lounge area
- 500 reception desks in one huge hall, united on 13 islands of registration
- 228 passport control booths
- 143 telegraphs
- 80% - that's how many flights will be serviced via telegraphs
- 500 parking spaces for airplanes in total
- 90 million passengers per year (1st stage capacity)
(200 million passengers per year (total capacity))
- 3 parallel runways at the time of opening
(6 runways by 2025)
-460 rooms at the airport hotel,
-The investment in the project amounted to 10.2 billion dollars,
-in the first 25 years of operation, it will bring in a profit of $22.2 billion.
-143 passenger sleeves are brought to the terminals,
-flights to 350 destinations
-Security will be provided by 3500 security guards and 6000 surveillance cameras,
-the harbor will be able to receive 114 aircraft at a time.
-luggage system 42 km long, capable of handling 28.9 thousand pieces of luggage per hour
-77 boarding gates
-114 self-service registration kiosks
-51 self-check-in kiosk
The largest airport in the world was opened as usual in April 2019. It took two days to pass the baton from Istanbul Ataturk Airport to the new air harbor, Turkish airline Turkish-Airlance, reports This unique procedure in the history of world aviation lasted 45 hours. It was attended by 800 people. It took 700 trucks to transport 47 thousand tons of all kinds of cargo and equipment.
The largest airport in the world, built in Turkey, has become the main European air center.
By the way, a new method was used in runway testing. To check the stability of the soil on it simultaneously drove 1453 trucks.
The airport is directly involved in servicing 225,000 people and another 1.5 million are indirectly involved in its work. 311 parking spaces have been created for aircraft parking; in the future their number will be increased to 500. A hangar, cargo warehouse, ground technical services and 18,000 multilevel parking spaces have been created to support the airport's vital activities.
For cargo and postal services allocated 1 million 400 thousand square meters. m. area, which allows 35 freighter aircraft to work simultaneously. They will provide transportation of 5.5 million tons of cargoes per year to more than 350 destinations around the world.
The total area of this grandiose construction is 76.5 million square meters. The new airport is located 35 km from Istanbul. There is a bus service for passenger delivery. In 2020, the construction of a new subway line will be completed. Around the airport there are huge parking spaces with a capacity of up to 40 thousand cars, half of these places are covered.
The largest airport in the world, interior decoration and architecture
The architecture of the new airport reflects the rich cultural heritage of the Turkish capital. Immediately after landing, the tall tower of the control center, designed in the form of a tulip, which project won the main International Architecture Award in 2016, is striking.
The architecture of the new airport reflects the rich cultural heritage of the Turkish capital. Immediately after landing, the tall tulip-shaped tower of the dispatch center, the project of which won the main International Architecture Award in 2016, is striking.
Oriental motifs are used in the building's interior decoration. 313 domes resembling mosque's vaults decorate the terminal's ceiling.
The airport has more than 20 thousand seats for passengers in the waiting rooms.
By 2023, the airport will be not only the largest, but also the most "advanced" in technological terms. It will install about 3 thousand screens and monitors, introduced advanced technology, including an automatic decision-making system, smart kiosks, automatic queue management systems, self-check-in luggage racks, automatic turnstiles at the gates and other modern devices.
The new giant belongs to the category of "quiet" airports. There are no voice messages about boarding or check-in for the flight. The loudspeaker can be turned on to alert you to emergency situations. For passengers arriving from the European Union and some other countries, the new airport has no security control when transferring to other flights.
Further stages include the construction of two more terminals and three runways, which will raise the capacity of the new air gate of Istanbul to 200 million passengers a year.
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