BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov.10
Trend:
New airport in Turkey’s Istanbul has served 29.4 million passengers in the first 10 months of 2021, the Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure told Trend on Nov.10.
According to the ministry, during the reporting period, over 8.6 million passengers were served on domestic flights while 20.8 million passengers - on international flights.
Meanwhile, 224,256 flights were carried out at the new Istanbul Airport, including 65,367 - domestic flights while 158,889 - international flights.
"The volume of cargo transportation through the new Istanbul Airport reached 1.2 million tons from January through October 2021, of which 117,011 accounted for domestic flights while 1,058,861 tons for international flights," the ministry said.
The opening ceremony of the new airport was held in Istanbul on October 29, 2018, in which President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Mehmet Cahit Turhan took part.
Istanbul's third airport is located in the northern part of the city.