The Largest Airport in the World in the Foreseeable Future | Istanbul New mega airport has gone into operation

It will be a hub in European-Asian air traffic and will become the largest airport in the world in the foreseeable future. The new Istanbul airport officially started operations on Saturday with the launch of a Turkish Airlines aircraft.

Broadcast live from Turkish state media, lifted the first aircraft against 14.30 local time towards the capital Ankara from the new mega-location in the north of the metropolis. Previously, the entire airport facility had moved within a day. Already in the morning authorities had reported that the gigantic procession, which began on Friday, was largely completed. In Istanbul, streets that were closed for the move from Atatürk Airport to nearly 40 kilometers Istanbul Airport, already re-opened, tweeted Turkish Airlines CEO Bilal Eksi on Saturday. Hundreds of Lorries with airport equipment and tens of thousands of tons of material had rolled through the city since Friday morning. 

Saturday night, the first international flights from the airport should start. According to Turkish Airlines, 337 of his aircraft were flown by Atatürk to their new home base.

Istanbul Airport is a prestigious project by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who officially opened the airport in October, when it was still a construction site , and is primarily to compete with Dubai as a global hub. Following completion scheduled for 2028, the airport is expected to reach a capacity of 200 million passengers per year, making it the largest airport in the world, according to current standards.