IGA Istanbul Airport has outlined its plans for 2024, with CEO, Selahattin Bilgen, promising that it will likely be a “yr of investments”.
Talking in the course of the Turkish gateway’s annual press convention, Bilgen said that the airport invested €160 million in 2023 and would enhance that to €656.5 million this yr.
He additionally revealed the airport’s key targets for 2024 almost about route improvement, runways, sustainability and passenger satisfaction.
Bilgen revealed that the airport’s targets for 2024 included:
Growing passengers numbers
Saying that its passenger goal for 2024 is 85 million, Bilgen said that iGA Istanbul Airport continues to develop its passenger site visitors with extra passengers day-after-day.
“We plan to extend the variety of flights to 532,000 in 2024,” he said, highlighting that the airport plans to extend the variety of passengers by 12.77%.
Further airways
Bilgen revealed that iGA will welcome a complete of 11 new airways by the top of 2024.
He stated that he believed that the frequently rising variety of carriers signified “iGA Istanbul Airport establishing management within the international aviation business.”
The CEO famous that iGA Istanbul Airport ranks among the many world’s prime three airports relating to the variety of served airline firms.”
Upgraded runways
In accordance with Bilgen, the airport plans to implement the primary triple parallel runway operation in Europe in 2024.
He defined: “We are going to break new floor amongst ICAO member nations with our triple impartial runway operations.
“We’re concentrating on operations with the very best effectivity and capability, after the USA. With this technique, our 120 ATM/h (hourly air site visitors capability) capability can probably exceed 148 ATM/h.
“This capability enhance in air site visitors will play a necessary function in our airport exceeding its contract’s 150 million passenger goal and reaching 200 million passengers with none further runway funding following Section 5.”
Elevated Funding
Speaking about iGA Istanbul Airport’s 2024 funding plans, Bilgen stated: “We are going to make investments €35 million for the Normal Aviation Terminal, which we plan to finish on the finish of the yr, and we hope to take a position €146.4 million within the Eskişehir GES Venture [solar power project], which we may even full by the top of the yr.
“With the 199.32 MWe unlicensed SPP (Photo voltaic Energy Plant) to be established on an space of three,000,000 sq. metres by iGA Havalimanı İşletmesi AŞ in Eskişehir, iGA would be the first airport on the planet to satisfy all of its electrical energy wants with renewable vitality.
“We anticipate an annual vitality manufacturing of 340.446.833 kWh/yr via this plant. For the Hilton Istanbul Airport, which we plan to finish within the first quarter of 2025, we’ve got an funding goal of €25.6 million this yr.
“We goal to take a position a complete of €656.5 million in 2024, with a complete funding of €331.2 million deliberate for the development of the East-West runway and the North-South backup runway in 2024.”
Cargo growth
iGA Istanbul Airport is already vital centre when it comes to air cargo operations and claims to boast a cargo dealing with space that’s shut to a few occasions that of Hong Kong Worldwide Airport, one of many world’s busiest cargo airports.
Bilgen added: “There are at the moment 14 scheduled cargo airline firms which might be actively working on the airport, and our present infrastructure may attain a capability of 5.5 million tons, at a formidable degree of 1.4 million sq. metre.”
The airport additionally introduced its co-operation with Trendyol and FedEx Categorical, the world’s largest specific transportation firm on a 23,000-square-metre facility within the iGA Istanbul Airport Cargo Zone.
It’s anticipated to be a hub that may combine operations on three continents, offering strategic connectivity between Asia and Africa.
Decreasing emissions
Bilgen reminded press convention attended that the airport’s mission assertion was ‘Our Focus is the World, Our Purpose is the Future’, which ensured that’s dedicated to attaining Web Zero CO2 Emissions.
Certainly, he revealed that the gateway’s goal is to cut back its emissions by 45% in six years in comparison with the bottom yr.
“We are going to obtain a 73% emission discount in 2040 and attain the Web Zero Emission goal in 2050,” assured Bilgen.
“With our waste recycling programme, we’re decided to attain our zero emission targets by 2050, taking concrete steps similar to decreasing waste emissions by 50% and changing 50% of our car fleet to electrical autos.”
He famous that iGA Istanbul Airport has already achieved vital success within the ACI Airports Carbon Accreditation programme by reaching Degree 4 in three years.
IST’s influence on aviation business
Bilgen famous: “Since we began operations in 2019, we’ve got elevated the variety of flights from 329,876 [per annum] to 505,968 on the finish of 2023, and thereby the variety of passengers from almost 53 million to 76 million, breaking information for each each day flights and passenger numbers in the summertime.
“Turkey as a vacation spot has additionally seen a lift in tourism, changing into the fourth nation on the planet to host the very best variety of vacationers. We’re so thrilled to have the ability to contribute to Turkey’s nationwide economic system and to our residents via this sector.”
