Discovering Istanbul Airport

Set to be the world’s largest airport, iGA will be capable of hosting up to 200 million passengers annually by 2028

WORDS HANNAH BRANDLER

For years travellers have been using hubs at the likes of Doha, Dubai and Amsterdam to connect between Europe and Asia, with Istanbul’s Ataturk and Sabiha Gokcen airports suffering from congestion and delays despite the city’s well-placed location straddling both continents. Enter Istanbul Airport (also known as iGA – Istanbul Grand Airport) which began operations in October 2018 and aims to be the world’s largest airport once its four phases of construction are complete in 2028. The airport took over from Ataturk as Istanbul’s main airport in April 2019, adopting the IST code in the process. It occupies 76.5 million sqm with an “under one roof ” design, meaning there is just one terminal – spanning 1.4 million sqm – for both domestic and international departures, plus three independent runways, an air…

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