Istanbul New Airport: The futures biggest Airport?

In the future, the "Istanbul New Airport" is supposed to be the world's largest airport, with six start and runways. The architects of "Haptic Architects", "Nordic Office of Architecture" and "Grimshaw Architects" have recently released the first pictures of how the future airport could look like.

In 2018, the first phase of the project is to be completed. From this moment on, the airport is, according to its constructers, already, able to manage up to 90 million passengers per year. After its completion and together with the already existing airports of Istanbul, the future airport will then carry, another 150 million passengers per year. Currently, the U.S. Hartsfield -Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the largest airport in the world with over 94 million passengers in 2013. At number two in 2013, the Beijing airport with almost 84 million passengers London - Heathrow: Third place and Tokyo -Haneda in fourth place. The current Istanbul airport was in 2013 on the eighteenth place. Schiphol (NL) is in fourteenth place.

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Passengers

Atlanta GA, US
Beijing, CN
London, GB
Tokyo, JP
Chicago, IL, US
Los Angeles CA, US
Dubai, AE
Paris, FR
Dallas/Forth Worth TX, US
Jakarta, ID
Hong Kong, HK
Frankfurt, DE
Singapore, SG
Amsterdam, NL
Denver CO, US
Guangzhou, CN
Bangkok, TH
Istanbul, TR
New York, US
Kuala Lumpur, MY
Shanghai, CN
San Francisco, US
Charlotte NC, US
Incheon, KR
Las Vegas NV, US
Miami FL, US
Phoenix AZ, US
Houston, US
Madrid, ES
Munich, DE

94.431.224
83.712.355
72.368.061
68.906.509
66.777.161
66.667.619
66.431.533
62.052.917
60.470.507
60.137.347
59.594.290
58.036.948
53.726.087
52.569.200
52.556.359
52.450.262
51.363.451
51.172.626
50.423.765
47.189.849
47.189.849
44.945.760
43.457.471
41.679.758
40.933.037
40.562.948
40.341.614
39.799.414
39.717.850
38.672.644

Written by Team: Flight-Delayed.co.uk

Istanbul New Airport from Nordic Office of Architecture on Vimeo.