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Turkey unveils world's largest airport in Istanbul

Oct 30, 2018, 12:26:05 PM IST

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Istanbul Airport: $11.7 billion project

President Tayyip Erdogan opened a new $11.7 billion airport outside Istanbul that will be one of the world's busiest, though delays mean it will not be fully operational until January.

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Passenger Handling

Istanbul new Airport, on the shores of the Black Sea, will be able to handle 90 million passengers a year, and can be expanded to accommodate as many as 200 million.

For the first two months, however, it will be used for just a few flights within Turkey and to Azerbaijan and northern Cyprus.

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