Istanbul Airport

Passenger flights at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport are now officially suspended and shifted to the new Istanbul airport, a spokeswoman for the IGA consortium said.

The spokeswoman said Ataturk International Airport was closed for passenger flights. The old airport is expected to be used as a park and exhibition venue but will also be open for freight flights.

The transfer of operations from Atatürk Airport to the newly-built mega Istanbul Airport will be completed in 45 hours, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Cahit Turhan has said.
The big switch will begin at 3:00 am on April 5 and be completed at 11:59 pm on April 6, according to the minister.

Istanbul's new airport does not need additional financing and Turkish Airlines will not be a partner in the airport consortium, the chairman of airport shareholder Limak Holding told Reuters.

Operations from Atatürk Airport to the newly built Istanbul Airport will start being transferred on April 5.

The gradual shift from Atatürk Airport to the new Istanbul Airport will be completed on March 3, Funda Ocak, the general director of State Airports Administration, has announced.

Kolin İnşaat has transferred its 20 percent stake in İGA Havalimanı İşletmesi that operates Istanbul Airport to another shareholder, Kalyon.

A number of flights to and from Istanbul are canceled today because of the bad weather in the area, Turkish television CNN Turk said.

A court in Istanbul has found four police officers and a doctor guilty of causing the death of an American woman at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in 2013, while seven other police officers have been acquitted.

The General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMİ) at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport on Jan. 25 stepped up preparations against a forecasted new wave of snowfall and cold weather, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

Officials from the DHMİ said they would assign 46 vehicles and at least 270 personnel to prevent possible problems on aprons and runways.

Scores of flights from Istanbul airports and city ferry lines have been canceled, as the city continued to struggle on a fourth day of heavy snowfall in what the Mayor Kadir Topbaş described as the heaviest snow in seven years.