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Aircraft and transport: call for bids for Istanbul mega-airport by the end of the year

Istanbul, Turkey - It will have to handle a 150-million-passenger traffic per year

The Turkish Minister of Transport Binali Yildirdim announced that by the end of 2012 the call for bids for Istanbul's third airport construction will be ready. Yildirdim declared that the new hub will be a mega-structure: 5 runways and a 1-million-mq terminal area, which will allow the new airport to handle a traffic equal to 150 million passengers per year. Financial terms are not yet...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1141904
Rome, Italy, 06/08/2012 16:32
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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