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Thursday, April 4, 2019

✈Big switch to Istanbul New Airport begins tomorrow



Istanbul New Airport Control Tower

In a massive logistics operation that will start tomorrow, Turkey is going to say goodbye to Atatürk Airport, which has long been home to Turkey's rise in global aviation and move to the new Istanbul Airport. The long-awaited process of shifting from the longtime home of Turkish civil aviation, Atatürk Airport, to the new Istanbul Airport will kick off at 3 a.m. tomorrow. The move will last for 45 hours and be completed just before midnight on Saturday if all goes according to plan. Both the outgoing Atatürk Airport and the incoming Istanbul Airport will be closed to all passenger flights for a period of 12 hours, between 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. that day.
Atatürk International Airport, which was commissioned in 1953, will no longer serve commercial flights as of Saturday. The airport, which handled 68 million people last year, will transition to other uses, such as training activities, aviation fairs and civil use.
The last plane to carry passengers from Atatürk Airport will fly to Singapore on Saturday at 2 a.m. [April 5, 2300GMT]. Flights at Istanbul Airport will increase gradually as of Saturday at 2 p.m. The first flight after the big move will be to Ankara's Esenboğa Airport.
Due to big move Turkish Airlines flights to Sarajevo will see temporarily adjustments. In transition period flights will operate once a day instead of three daily (from April 5 to April 11). On April 11 all flights go back to normal and will operate as scheduled three times per day.

Istanbul-Sarajevo schedule

Sarajevo- Istanbul schedule


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