Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Шаблон:Airport codes is one of the two international airports serving İstanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the first female combat pilot in Turkey. Located Шаблон:Convert southeast of central İstanbul, it is on the Asian side of the bi-continental city. It was built because 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 was 3 million passengers per year and the domestic terminal capacity was 0.5 million passengers per year. In June 2007, Turkish conglomerate Limak Holding, 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 31 October 2009. In 2010, Sabiha Gökçen airport handled 11,129,472 passengers, a 71% increase compared to 2009. The airport is planning to host 25 million passengers by 2023. In September 2010, the airport was voted the World's Best Airport at the World Low Cost Airlines Congress in London and received the award. The other awards received by the airport in 2010 were: Turkey’s Most Successful Tourism Investment 2010, the highly commended award from Routes Europe and the airport is honored with Airport Traffic Growth Award by Airline News & Network Analysis web site anna.aero.
The new terminal building of 25 million annual passenger capacity conducts domestic and international flights under one roof.
The features of and the services at the new terminal of the Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and its outlying buildings include:
The airport's cargo terminal has a capacity of 90,000 tons per year and is equipped with 18 cold storage depots.
Sabiha Gökçen International is connected to the city of Istanbul and that city's wider metropolitan area through a number of transport corridors. The main airport complex is easily reachable by car from the E80 (Trans-European Motorway) which passes through the Istanbul Metropolitan Area, and is served by the following public bus lines:
HAVAŞ shuttle services have been stopped in Greater Istanbul Metropolitan Area. However, it is still possible to use this service from the city of İzmit.
The shuttle services are operated by HAVATAŞ after stopped HAVAŞ operation. The busses go to Taksim and Kadikoy from Airport.
AKMIS SEYAHAT Agency City Busses have schedule services nearly cities which are Bursa, Kocaeli and Sakarya. The Agency have an agreement with Pegasus Airlines which is to use Airline Logo their Vehicle Covering.
The bus lines listed above are often much more comfortable option than using Metrobüs. Metrobüs vehicles are almost always overcrowded and have very limited space to host one's luggage. Regardless, if one really would like to use Metrobüs, then there are transfer options from bus line E-10/E-11 in Uzunçayır stop or using M4 metro line to the Kartal station and from there, using KM22 buses to the airport.
In addition to this, the airport is located just 14 km from the town of Pendik's railway and sea-taxi stations. Moreover plans to extend the Istanbul LRT to the airport as part of the ongoing Marmaray project are currently under consideration. Taxis are also a common means of transport at the airport and there is a large rental-car facility.
Шаблон:Airport destination list
Year | Domestic | % change | International | % change | Total | % change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 (Jan.-Aug.) | 9,661,380 | Шаблон:Increase 27% | 5,826,855 | Шаблон:Increase 42% | 15,488235 | Шаблон:Increase 32% |
2013 | 11,947,424 | Шаблон:Increase 23% | 6,694,418 | Шаблон:Increase 35% | 18,641,842 | Шаблон:Increase 27% |
2012 | 9,486,469 | Шаблон:Increase 9% | 5,000,773 | Шаблон:Increase 13% | 14,487,242 | Шаблон:Increase 10% |
2011 | 8,704,249 | Шаблон:Increase 16% | 4,420,421 | Шаблон:Increase 20% | 13,124,670 | Шаблон:Increase 17% |
2010 | 7,435,158 | Шаблон:Increase 65% | 3,694,314 | Шаблон:Increase 84% | 11,129,472 | Шаблон:Increase 71% |
2009 | 4,547,673 | Шаблон:Increase 63% | 2,092,285 | Шаблон:Increase 33% | 6,639,958 | Шаблон:Increase 52% |
2008 | 2,764,856 | Шаблон:Increase 9% | 1,516,337 | Шаблон:Increase 27% | 4,281,193 | Шаблон:Increase 15% |
2007 | 2,528,549 | Шаблон:Increase 17% | 1,191,946 | Шаблон:Increase 56% | 3,720,495 | Шаблон:Increase 28% |
2006 | 2,153,561 | Шаблон:Increase 285% | 762,893 | Шаблон:Increase 66% | 2,916,454 | Шаблон:Increase 186% |
2005 | 559,824 | Шаблон:Increase 5,323% | 459,922 | Шаблон:Increase 96% | 1,019,746 | Шаблон:Increase 315% |
2004 | 10,323 | Шаблон:Increase 265% | 235,278 | Шаблон:Increase 52% | 245,601 | Шаблон:Increase 56% |
2003 | 2,826 | – | 154,346 | – | 157,172 | – |
(*) Preliminary data. Source: DHMI.gov.tr