SABIHA GöKçEN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
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'Sabiha Gökçen International Airport' is one of the airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the world's first female combat pilot. It is on the Asian side of the bicontinental city, Istanbul. It was built because the Atatürk International Airport (on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international). SAW's international terminal capacity is 3M passengers/year and the domestic terminal capacity is 0.5M/year.
The International flights terminal has an area of 20,000 m² consisting of 16,000 m² ground floor and 4.000 m² mezzanine level.
It features:
★ 3.000.000 passenger/year capacity.
★ CIP and VIP lounges
★ Duty-free shops, bars and cafés, pubs and restaurants
★ Post Office, Bank, Rent-a-Car
★ Offices
Granite used in flooring and on external faces; decorative aluminum modules used for illumination fixtures, audio speakers, ventilation diffusers on the ceiling.
International Flights Terminal consists of three lounges: two operating for departures, A and B, and one for arrivals. Each departure lounge accommodates 11 check-in counters and 4 boarding gates, and arrival section contains 12 passport counters.
Galleries, interconnecting the transformer, VIP buildings and other units of the airport, are located 6 m below the ground. An indoor platform structure of 200 m in length with an area of 3000 m² is located to the north of the building as a stand alone structure with steel construction on reinforced concrete columns. Platform structure is also utilized as a passenger reception canopy.
Electronic systems include Flight Information Display System (FIDS), Closed Circuit Television System (CCTV), Card Access Control System, Central Clock, Public Address and Music Broadcasting, Automatic Fire Detection and Carpark Fare Systems.
★ 30 air-conditioner centrals
★ 110 individual comfort modules
★ Two jockey pumps
★ Two main fire pumps
The water pressurized in the fire pumping system is kept available for utilization at any time through fire cabinets, installed at various sections within the building and platform floor and sprinklers installed -2.80 m below thereof.
A fully automatic luggage conveyor system to realize all luggage handling processes of the 3,500,000 passengers/year capacity is available. The conveyor system is capable of detecting all kinds of explosives, brought by the passengers or incoming with the luggage.
There are 44 fully automatic, photocell doors. Doors opening to the exterior are equipped with air screens with electrical heaters so as to prevent the conditioned air balance of the building interior.
★ Aerotur Airlines (Aktau, Taraz)
★ AMC Airlines (Cairo)
★ Air Arabia (Sharjah)
★ Belle Air (Tirana)
★ Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, Munich)
★ Corendon Airlines (Amsterdam, Brussels, Eindhoven, Paris, Tel Aviv)
★ Dagestan Airlines (Makhachkala)
★ easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, London-Luton)
★ Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hamburg, Stuttgart)
★ MyAir (Milan-Bergamo)
★ Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo) [Seasonal]
★ Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Kayseri, London-Stansted, Malatya, Munich, Nuremberg, Samsun, Stuttgart, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zurich)
★
★ Pegasus Airlines operated by Izair (Izmir)
★ TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover)
★ Turan Air (Ganja)
★ Turkish Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Gaziantep, İzmir, Kars, Trabzon, Van)
The building consists of an intermediate section serving for the check-in processes and luggage services, and passenger departure and arrival halls.
It features:
★ 2,000 m² utilization area
★ 500,000 passengers/year capacity
★ Cafeteria
★ Offices
★ Cargo terminal:
★
★ 90,000 tons/year capacity
★
★ 18 cold storage depots
★ There is no traffic data available from DHMI yet. Check DHMI's website [1] for statistics (in Turkish) that might be published in the future.
★ Atatürk International Airport, the other international airport of Istanbul
★ Sabiha Gökçen International Airport's official site
★ Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Satellite Photo
'Sabiha Gökçen International Airport' is one of the airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the world's first female combat pilot. It is on the Asian side of the bicontinental city, Istanbul. It was built because the Atatürk International Airport (on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international). SAW's international terminal capacity is 3M passengers/year and the domestic terminal capacity is 0.5M/year.
International flights terminal
The International flights terminal has an area of 20,000 m² consisting of 16,000 m² ground floor and 4.000 m² mezzanine level.
It features:
★ 3.000.000 passenger/year capacity.
★ CIP and VIP lounges
★ Duty-free shops, bars and cafés, pubs and restaurants
★ Post Office, Bank, Rent-a-Car
★ Offices
Materials
Granite used in flooring and on external faces; decorative aluminum modules used for illumination fixtures, audio speakers, ventilation diffusers on the ceiling.
Operation mode
International Flights Terminal consists of three lounges: two operating for departures, A and B, and one for arrivals. Each departure lounge accommodates 11 check-in counters and 4 boarding gates, and arrival section contains 12 passport counters.
Gallery and platform
Galleries, interconnecting the transformer, VIP buildings and other units of the airport, are located 6 m below the ground. An indoor platform structure of 200 m in length with an area of 3000 m² is located to the north of the building as a stand alone structure with steel construction on reinforced concrete columns. Platform structure is also utilized as a passenger reception canopy.
Electronic systems
Electronic systems include Flight Information Display System (FIDS), Closed Circuit Television System (CCTV), Card Access Control System, Central Clock, Public Address and Music Broadcasting, Automatic Fire Detection and Carpark Fare Systems.
Illumination system
Air conditioning system
★ 30 air-conditioner centrals
★ 110 individual comfort modules
Fire extinguishing system
★ Two jockey pumps
★ Two main fire pumps
The water pressurized in the fire pumping system is kept available for utilization at any time through fire cabinets, installed at various sections within the building and platform floor and sprinklers installed -2.80 m below thereof.
Luggage systems
A fully automatic luggage conveyor system to realize all luggage handling processes of the 3,500,000 passengers/year capacity is available. The conveyor system is capable of detecting all kinds of explosives, brought by the passengers or incoming with the luggage.
Doors
There are 44 fully automatic, photocell doors. Doors opening to the exterior are equipped with air screens with electrical heaters so as to prevent the conditioned air balance of the building interior.
Airlines and destinations
★ Aerotur Airlines (Aktau, Taraz)
★ AMC Airlines (Cairo)
★ Air Arabia (Sharjah)
★ Belle Air (Tirana)
★ Condor Airlines (Frankfurt, Munich)
★ Corendon Airlines (Amsterdam, Brussels, Eindhoven, Paris, Tel Aviv)
★ Dagestan Airlines (Makhachkala)
★ easyJet (Basel/Mulhouse, London-Luton)
★ Germanwings (Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hamburg, Stuttgart)
★ MyAir (Milan-Bergamo)
★ Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo) [Seasonal]
★ Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Düsseldorf, Ercan, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Kayseri, London-Stansted, Malatya, Munich, Nuremberg, Samsun, Stuttgart, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Trabzon, Van, Vienna, Zurich)
★
★ Pegasus Airlines operated by Izair (Izmir)
★ TUIfly (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover)
★ Turan Air (Ganja)
★ Turkish Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, Gaziantep, İzmir, Kars, Trabzon, Van)
Domestic terminal
The building consists of an intermediate section serving for the check-in processes and luggage services, and passenger departure and arrival halls.
It features:
★ 2,000 m² utilization area
★ 500,000 passengers/year capacity
★ Cafeteria
★ Offices
★ Cargo terminal:
★
★ 90,000 tons/year capacity
★
★ 18 cold storage depots
Airport Traffic Statistics
★ There is no traffic data available from DHMI yet. Check DHMI's website [1] for statistics (in Turkish) that might be published in the future.
See also
★ Atatürk International Airport, the other international airport of Istanbul
External links
★ Sabiha Gökçen International Airport's official site
★ Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Satellite Photo
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