Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

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Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
Sabiha Gökçen Havalimanı
IATA: SAW – ICAO: LTFJ
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator GMR Infra
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Elevation AMSL 311 ft / 95 m
Coordinates 40°53′″N 29°18′″E / <span class="geo-dec geo" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for Expression error: Unexpected / operator Expression error: Unexpected / operator">Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operator
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
6/24 9,842 3000 Concrete

Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) 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. In June 2007, India's GMR group got the contract for upgrading and maintaining the airport. In mid-2008, ground will be broken to upgrade the international terminal to handle 10 million passengers annually.

Interior view of Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
Interior view of Sabiha Gökçen International Airport

Contents

[edit] 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.

An aerial photo of the international terminal
An aerial photo of the international terminal

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

[edit] Materials

Granite used in flooring and on external faces; decorative aluminum modules used for illumination fixtures, audio speakers, ventilation diffusers on the ceiling.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 3,000 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Illumination system

[edit] Air conditioning system

  • 30 air-conditioner centrals
  • 110 individual comfort modules

[edit] 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.

[edit] Luggage systems

A fully automatic luggage conveyor system to cope with all luggage handling processes of the 3,500,000 passengers every year capacity is installed. The conveyor system is capable of detecting all kinds of explosives, brought by the passengers or incoming with the luggage.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] 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

[edit] Airport traffic statistics

Passenger Traffic
Year (months) Domestic International Total
2007 (all) 2,563,283 1,228,348 3,791,625
2006 (all) 2,153,561 762,893 2,916,454
2005 (all) 559,824 459,922 1,019,746
2004 (all) 10,323 235,278 245,601
2003 (all) 2,826 154,346 157,172

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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