Turkey: Istanbul New Airport promises to be ‘smarter’; more user friendly

The organisation behind Istanbul New Airport (INA) has unveiled some of the advances it hopes will make the huge new facility a user-friendly experience for passengers. INA, which is being created to take over from the still relatively young but increasingly overcrowded Atatürk International, is scheduled to open in 2018; its first phase will have 3 runways and a terminal with an annual capacity of 90m passengers. If the airport grows to the full size envisaged through a series of expansion phases, it will eventually have 6 runways, 3 terminals and the capacity to handle up to 200m travellers annually. According to iGA, the organisation charged with constructing and running INA, airports will have to become “smarter” and more proactive in assisting the people who use them as the volume of air traffic grows. <br/>