Turkey completed the first phase of a EUR 927 mn (USD 1.1 bn) expansion project at Antalya Airport on Saturday, Turkish newspaper the Daily Sabah reports, quoting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as saying during the airport’s inauguration. The airport expansion project was executed through a public-private partnership (PPP), incurring no government expenditure.

The first phase’s details:

  • A new cargo terminal over an area of 13k sqm;
  • Expansions of apron space, hangar area, and taxiways totaling over 1.4 mn sqm;
  • A new maintenance hangar area and its infrastructure works;
  • A new fuel farm over a 80k sqm area;
  • Expansions of the international terminal from 90k sqm to 224k sqm;
  • Almost doubling the domestic terminal’s area to reach 75k sqm.

More about the project: The long-term expansion project is planned in three phases. The second phase — planned for completion by 2029 — will see investments of EUR 15 mn to construct a new air traffic control tower, while the third phase is expected to add another 70k sqm international terminal and expand the fuel farm to reach 150k sqm. The third phase will take place between 2038 and 2039, and is expected to cost EUR 125 mn.

Coming next in Turkey: Two more airports are also currently under construction in Turkey’s central Yozgat and northeastern Bayburt-Gumushane — which would raise the number of active airports in the country to 60.

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