Turkish Airlines move to new Istanbul Airport

Turkish Airlines completed a move to Istanbul's new airport on Saturday. The new airport has now officially become the main airport in Turkey. The transfer from Ataturk Airport started on Friday and was completed in less than 40 hours. Istanbul Airport will initially serve around 90 million passengers annually, and the authorities plan to further expand it to handle 200 million passengers a year. This would make the airport one of the largest in the world.

The airport construction, which is part of infrastructure mega-projects under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however, raised major concerns among Istanbul citizens. There have been fears that the costs are unbearable for the country being on the edge of financial collapse. The total cost of the project is estimated at over €7 billion.