In Istanbul, Turkish Airlines transfers all flights to the new airport

Some of the flights will be cancelled.

Turkish Airlines announced a complete translation of 14:00 April 6 all of its flights to the new airport of Istanbul. Flights from Ataturk airport the airline will cease at 02:00 on 6 April. Up to this point the flights of Turkish Airlines will be serviced at the airport of Ataturk.

In connection with the transition to the new airport of the flights of Turkish airlines on April 6 will be cancelled. Passengers have begun to receive appropriate notice of the proposal to change the date of flights.

Earlier, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported that the transition of airlines from Ataturk airport to the new airport of Istanbul will start at 03:00 on 5 April and will last 45 hours until 7 April. At this point, both of the air port will serve only flights basic airlines. After completion of the transition Ataturk airport will stop its work.

The new airport of Istanbul should become one of the largest air harbors in the world. In the first stage, construction workers built the terminal area of 1.4 million square metres of airfield infrastructure with two runways.

Initially it was assumed that the new airport will become fully operational on 31 October, 2018, two days after its opening by President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. However, the full launch was postponed, first to 31 December 2018, and then in March 2019.

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