Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (SAW/LTFJ)
New routes and frequency possibilities and why these routes would work
Scope to serve at least 100 potential routes:
Sabiha Gökçen – a well-placed alternative airport for Istanbul benefiting from access to downtown via two major highways and a second 25m capacity terminal opening in October 2009.
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SAW is home to Pegasus Airlines – dominating the ramp on this day. Sunexpress – a joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa – is also based at the airport helping to generate +28% growth in 2007-08.
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Other major reasons to serve this airport
- Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (ISGIA) is New Istanbul’s New Airport.
- Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Investment, Development and Operation Inc. (ISG) was established through the partnership of Limak Holding (Turkey), GMR Infrastructure Limited (India) and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (Malaysia).
- As a result of the great increases in the passenger traffic at ISGIA, the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries decided to increase the airport’s capacity by constructing a new terminal building with an ultimate handling capacity of 25 million passengers based on a Build-Operate-Transfer model over 20 years. ISG won this BOT tender in July 2007.
- As of May 1st, 2008, ISG acquired the operational rights for the next 20 years of ISGIA including the management of the existing terminal buildings, car parks, ground handling, cargo, aircraft refuelling operations, construction and the operation of the new terminal building, multilevel car park, airport hotel and CIP and VIP facilities.
Interactive route map
- At the moment, ISGIA offers flights to 17 domestic and 51 international destinations and this number is increases rapidly, clearly underlining the viability of other new services.
- SAW is currently connected to these destinations also visible via the interactive route map.
- Aktau, Amman, Amsterdam, Bahrain, Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Chernovtsy, Cologne, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Ercan (Cyprus), Frankfurt, Gyandzha, Hamburg, Hannover, Isfahan, Ivano-Frankovsk, Izmail, Kabul, Khmelnitskiy, Krasnodar, Kuwait, Linz, London, Madrid, Makhackale, Milano, Munich, Nikolaev, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Sharjah, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tbilisi, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Vladikavkaz, Zurich.
They SAW the World – and the World also saw the Turkish Grand Prix – some 40,000 also attended for the race – SAW is just 20 minutes away from the circuit.
- Europe’s latest greenfield airport.
- Europe’s fastest growing airport 2002-2008.
- Connection via Turkey’s two major highways provides easy and fast access to the airport.
- Triple digit traffic growth during the first year of operation.
- With the industrial and residential around the airport such as Bursa, Gebze, Izmit, Sakarya, Yalova and Istanbul Anatolian side, ISGIA has a 20 million population catchment area.
- A Technopark is planned over an area of 90 hectares and 20 hectares for a conference center and hotel facilities.
- Has a scope to serve at least 100 potential routes from ISGIA in the long term.
- Hubs of both Pegasus Airlines (serving both domestic and international) and Sunexpress (a Turkish Airlines-Lufthansa cooperation).
Istanbul: 2010 European Capital of Culture
- Istanbul’s economy is larger than 12 individual EU countries and the population has an increasing disposable income and propensity to travel.
- High growth area with an expanding industrial sector, gentrifying residential areas and developing business districts.
- Special emphasis by the government to promote tourism.
- The only city in the world which is spans two continents (Europe and Asia) divided by the Bosphorus strait. Istanbul has a history of 3,000 years and since its foundation on this strategic junction of land and sea, the city has been a crucial centre for trade.
- Has one of the largest catchment areas in the world.
- Air traffic growth is amongst the highest in the world.
- 2.5m tourists visited Istanbul in 1995; a figure expected to grow to 10m by 2010.
Marketing and other support
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Istanbul – one of Europe’s most intensive and populated catchment areas with a metro area exceeding 12 million. Some of its most commercially-important citizens are moving to the Istanbul Sapphire – Europe’s tallest residential building (54 floors; 238 metres).
Catchment Area
Istanbul is the largest city of Turkey with population of 12 million and with the other major cities around, ISGIA has one of the largest catchment areas in Europe.
- 30 min catchment area 5 million
- 60 min catchment area 10 million
- 120 min catchment area 17 million
Another launch in the Tuzla shipyard area of Istanbul – the airport is working hard create a strong focus on the specific industrial cargos related to a hinterland of automotive, chemicals, ship building and repair and textiles.
Under-served freight opportunities and other economic impact factors
One of the most important targets of ISG is to develop an integrated cargo processing system, entering new markets for cargo traffic and to be a major regional cargo hub. As many industrial facilities are located around Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, ISG is creating a strong focus on the specific industrial cargos related to a hinterland of automotive, chemicals, ship building and repair and textiles. ISG’s unique cargo terminal offers five 7,000 square meters or warehousing equivalent to 90,000 tonnes annual capacity. These facilities include 18 cold storages separately-adjustable for and kind of goods. The wide cargo apron’s design is suitable for parking of 11 large fuselage aircraft.
Many major world-famous automotive, electronics, white goods and ship building companies are located and under production within only 1 hour distance from ISGIA.
Global freight forwarding companies have offices in the warehouses and with the easy and flexible customs services, ISGIA is targeting to be one of the major cargo hubs in the region.
SAW is on the Asian side of Istanbul which is linked to the European portion of the city by the instantly-recognisable Bosphorus Bridge. In July the centre of the bridge was used for a table tennis match between former world champion Werner Schlager (Austria) and China’s Ko Lai Chak to symbolise the "Euro-Asia All Stars Series" which will be hosted by Istanbul in November.
Geography
- SAW is located at the Anatolian Side of Istanbul, and is 40km from Kadıköy, 12km from Pendik and 50km from Taksim.
- SAW is easily accessed by the TEM highway which is just two minutes from the airport.
- Rail services from Pendik connect SAW to other Anatolian cities on the Asian side including the capital Ankara.
- SAW offers public buses and HAVAS buses and taxis for the connection with all the important centres within the city.
- Use this interactive map to view transportation alternatives.
Infrastructure & Operations:
- Runway 06-24; 3,000 meters x45 meters. DVOR, ILS, DME, NDB. 40 ATM/hour capacity.
A second 25m capacity terminal opens in October 2009. Meanwhile the celebrations for new routes continue including this cake for the launch of daily Pegasus services between Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen and Brussels in June 2009. All new and existing services should benefit from Istanbul's designation as the European Capital of Culture 2010.
- No slot restrictions.
- Operating hours: 24 hours.
- One 25,000 metre terminal for both international and domestic flights. A new terminal with 25 million passenger capacity opens October, 2009
- A four-storey terminal covering 180,000 metres.
- 25 million annual passenger capacity.
- A four-storey car park with a capacity of 4.700 vehicles + 72 buses.
- 112 check-in counters + 30 CUSS check-in kiosks.
- Multi-aircraft parking system.
- 5,000 metre food court and 4,500 metre duty free area.
- EDS baggage screening.
Vital statistics
Passenger numbers:
- 2003 : 157,172
- 2004 : 245,601
- 2005 : 1,019.746
- 2006 : 2,916.523
- 2007 : 3,792.981
- 2008 : 4,348,722
- 2009 : 5,800,000 (expected)
- Cargo Traffic Progress (tonnes):
- 2003 : 32.889
- 2004 : 38,243
- 2005 : 58.205
- 2006 : 81,210
- 2007 : 98.422
- 2008 : 107,564
- Total passenger increase of major airports in Turkey (2007-2008): +5.96%; SAW +15%
- International passenger increase of major airports in Turkey (2007-2008): +7.84%; SAW +28%
Financials
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