İGA Havalimanı İşletmesi A.Ş – the company building the world’s biggest new airport 35km north of Istanbul – will host ACI Airport Exchange 2015, the event that combines an extensive airport services exhibition with five specialist conferences, and which is staged jointly by ACI EUROPE and ACI Asia Pacific.
The €10.2 billion Istanbul New Airport phase 1 will be completed before the end of 2017. The İGA-hosted ACI Airport Exchange 2015 will be the first major international event focused around the game-changing Istanbul New Airport mega-hub.
The İGA-hosted ACI Airport Exchange 2015 will take place on 8-10 December at the prestigious new Istanbul Congress Center in the heart of downtown Istanbul. The exhibition is expected to attract well in excess of 100 exhibitors, while up to 2,500 delegates and visitors are forecast to visit. View the newly-launched exhibition floor plan.
In addition to the regular five ACI Airport Exchange conferences an ‘Istanbul New Airport Development Conference’, dedicated to the €10.2 billion new airport, will be combined with the first-ever large-scale guided visits to the construction site. As the first major international event focused around this game-changing mega-hub, the İGA-hosted ACI Airport Exchange 2015 is likely to draw significant global air transport industry interest.
ACI Airport Exchange 2015 will be the 10th edition of this leading event in the airport development and operations calendar, which is always hosted by a major airport undertaking significant development in Europe or Asia – most recently Doha (2013) and Paris (2014).
The İGA-hosted ACI Airport Exchange will take place 8-10 December at the prestigious new Istanbul Congress Center in the heart of downtown Istanbul. The exhibition is expected to attract 100+ exhibitors and 2,500 visitors who will be able to make the first guided tours of the Istanbul New Airport mega hub construction site.
Istanbul New Airport: Facts and timeline
- January 2013: DHMI, the Turkish state airports authority, issues a tender for a 25-year BOT concession for Istanbul New Airport to be built on a greenfield site 35km north of Istanbul.
- The mega-hub will have an anticipated capacity for up to six runways serving 150 million passengers with extendable capacity to 200 million. 150 airlines will operate from the airport, serving more than 350 international destinations. Construction cost: €10.2 billion.
- May 2013: The CMLKK consortium (comprising Cengiz-Mapa-Limak-Kolin-Kalyon) wins the concession for €22.152 billion – an amount to be paid as rent in addition to the €10.2 billion construction cost – the largest concession bid in Turkish history.
- October 2013: İGA Havalimanı İşletmesi Anonim Şirketi (İGA) is founded as the new airport company to manage the project.
- November 2013: Concession agreement is signed between İGA and DHMI.
- March 2014: Master Plan submitted to DHMI.
- June 2014: Construction begins with groundbreaking ceremony performed by the Prime Minister.
- January 2015: Construction proceeds rapidly as the world’s biggest duty free agreement signed with Unifree DutyFree (including Gebr. Heinemann) involving a €120 million investment in a 53,000sqm airside retail space.
- February 2015: İGA and DHL sign an MoU to make Istanbul New Airport a regional hub for DHL Express.
- March 2015: İGA announces it will host ACI Airport Exchange 8-10 December 2015, the first major international event focused around this game-changing mega-hub.
- End – 2017: Istanbul New Airport Phase 1 scheduled to complete with three runways and a 900,000sqm, 90 million passenger capacity terminal. Construction of the three future phases continues.
Full details of the İGA-hosted ACI Airport Exchange 2015, including the specialist conference programmes, exhibition floor plans, social/networking events and guided construction site visits, will be published on the ACI Airport Exchange website. To exhibit email Julian Bidlake.
