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TAV
Havalimanları Holding announced that State Airports Operations Board of
Directors approved the lease of Alanya - Gazipaşa airport for 25 years.
Operating lease commitment between the state-run department for
aviation and the worldwide operating turkish company TAV for the
airport in Gazipasa has now been signed.
The
airport, which was built 10 years ago and vacant since this time will
finally be put into operation. Rumours had been growing, since the
announcment on August 31. 2007 when the tender was won by TAV, about
whether the the airport would actually be opened or not, as the 30 day
approval period had passed with no further update. Today with the
approval now in place, a report is being put together about the planned
rollout of the airport opening and procedures.
„Our goal is
the international air traffic' - Ceo of TAV, Dr. M. Sani Sener told the
press, the goal for Gazipasa was the international air traffic. We
developed a 5-years-strategic plan for a so called „boutique airport“.
Those project we created also in other coutries are successful so we
can say this strategy will be effective also for Alanya-Gazipasa.“ The
airport has a capacity right now for 500 000 travellers with a terminal
of 2 144 m2 and a parking capacity for 105 vehicles. TAV Holding
operates Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, the national and international
terminals in Adnan Menderes Airport of Izmir, airports of Tiflis and
Batum in Georgia and the airports Enfidha Zine Abidine Ben Ali and
Monastir Habib Boruguiba in Tunisia.
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