Turkey Plans to Build World´s Biggest Airport

CompaniesTransport ♦ Published: January 23, 2013; 19:26 ♦ (Vindobona)

Until 2017, Turkey wants to build the biggest airport. In total, the new airport will handle up to 150 million passengers.

Turkey Plans to Build World´s Biggest Airport / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The new airport will be built in Turkey´s biggest city Istanbul. After the first construction phase, the airport will handle 90 million passengers.

In the long term, the capacities will be enlarged for more than 150 million passengers. This corresponds to the fourfold size of Frankfurt Airport and the sevenfold size of Vienna Airport. In total, the construction costs are…