Turkey aims to host 202.8M travelers yearly at 61 airports by 2053.
The country has already been dubbed as an important air transport hub for Europe, western Asia and Africa in terms of both passenger and freight traffic.
Planning to develop the airport network to reach the target, the country is initially aiming to complete the ongoing construction of the Çukurova, Rize-Artvin, Bayburt-Gümüşhane and Yozgat airports, according to an Anadolu Agency (AA) report Monday that referred to the “Transportation 2053 Vision” report prepared within the scope of the Transport and Logistics Master Plan.
Some 87% of the superstructure construction of Rize-Artvin Airport in the Black Sea region, which is the second airport in Turkey being built with the sea embarkment method, has already been completed. The work on the airport was started by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure on April 3, 2017.
Test flights are also scheduled to start in April.
