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(Left to right) TAV Airports Vice Chairman Ali Haydar Kurtdarcan, TAV Airports President & CEO M. Sani Şener and TAV Airports Chairman Hamdi Akın welcome the Izmir contract |
TURKEY. TAV Airports will operate Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport’s domestic and international terminals until at least 2032, after winning a tender for the operating rights there. It previously operated just the international terminal.
The company bid €610 million for the contract, and will invest €250 million in upgrading the airport. Other bidders were IC İçtaş-Fraport and Limak-GMR Group.
TAV Airports Chief Executive Officer M. Sani Şener said: “Izmir has achieved significant growth economically and socially in recent years. As TAV Airports we are very glad to have won the tender for the operation of Adnan Menderes Airport, which I regard as the most important infrastructure project in Izmir. Izmir surely deserves such significant infrastructure.
“With the new terminal building which will be constructed, I believe that the increased capacity of the Domestic and International Terminals will make a major contribution to the region in respect of employment and economic development. We will also be transferring TAV service quality to the Domestic Terminal of Izmir Airport, a facility at the juncture of the Aegean Basin connecting Turkey with the overseas market.
“We plan to establish a dynamic synergy with our International Terminal Operations. We will spare no effort in strengthening the connection we have established between Izmir and various countries. As the operating company of Istanbul Atatürk and Ankara Esenboğa Airports, we are experienced in the serious effort required to operate both domestic and international terminals at the same time. In 2011, the synergy created in Istanbul resulted in +27% growth in transfer passenger numbers. We aim to develop the airport operations in Izmir with our ever improving skillset.”
TAV Airports will build a new Domestic Terminal with its investment of €250 million. The Domestic and International Terminals will be connected by a bridge system similar to the one in Istanbul Atatürk Airport. According to DHMI data, Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport provided services to 7,332,000 passengers in the first 10 months of 2011, a +15% increase over the same period of 2010.
ATÜ Duty Free operates the duty free concession at Izmir, and is co-owned by TAV and Gebr Heinemann-controlled Unifree.
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TAV is to invest €250 million at Izmir Airport |
