year.

It is planned to become the largest airport in the world with a 150 million annual passenger capacity and the flexibility to be upgraded to handle 200 million passengers.

Covering an area of 76.5 million m2 just north of Istanbul city centre, the project is on an epic scale even on completion of its first phase of development.

Phase One, October 2018:

► Control tower
► Main terminal with a passenger capacity of 90 million and an area of 1.3 million m2 (14 million ft2) and a second terminal building with an area of 170,000 m2 (1.8 million ft2)
► 88 aircraft jet bridges
► Covered car-park with a capacity of 12,000 vehicles
► 2 independent runways
► 8 parallel taxiways
► TIER 3certified Data Centre
► 4 million m2 (43 million ft2) of apron space
► Lounges, shops,restaurants, medical facilities, prayer rooms, convention centre and hotel

İGA, a consortium formed of Cengiz, Mapa, Limak, Kolin and Kalyon Group companies was founded on October 7, 2013 with the purpose of constructing and operating the new airport for 25 years and between them, have raised over 1.6 billion EURO to fund the enterprise, ranking it 4th in the Fortune 500 list in terms of equity capital.

The new Airport will serve more than 100 airlines and 300 destinations and be one of the most important hubs in the world.

It has been designed to accommodate all aircraft types including A380s and incorporates leading edge architecture and state-of-the-art airport facilities, systems and operations, so when it came to the specification for the radio communication system to be employed across the airport,