ATTEMPTED COUP HAS NOT SLOWED DOWN WORK ON ISTANBUL MEGA-AIRPORT PROJECT
November 1st, 2016
THE ATTEMPTED coup against the Turkish government on July 15 does not seem to have slowed down the development of the new mega-airport in Istanbul, with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announcing on Sunday (November 13) that the first stage of the new facility will be opened early 2018.
The project, dubbed Istanbul New Airport for now, is slated to be one of the world’s largest, covering an area of 76.5 million square metres and eventually serving 200 million passengers on 250 airlines to 350 destinations annually. The first phase, now scheduled ...
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