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Sabiha Gokcen International Airport is one of the airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gokcen, the world's first female combat pilot. It has the IATA airport code SAW and the ICAO airport code LTFJ. This article is about the city. ... Sabiha Gökçen with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Sabiha Gökçen was the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot of the world. ... The word pilot has several meanings: In shipping, a pilot is someone who guides ships through the waters near a harbour, or especially narrow or otherwise dangerous coastal waters. ... The IATA airport code is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ...
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Sabiha Gokcen International Airport's official site (http://www.sgairport.com/)
Sabiha Gökçen InternationalAirport (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) is one of the airports serving Istanbul, Turkey.
It was built because the Atatürk InternationalAirport (on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international).
Even so, a third airport in the metropolitan Istanbul is necessary since the combined capacity of the three (with the addition of Hazarfen) Istanbulairports (20M international passengers/year 8M domestic passengers/year) will not be able to meet the demand in 2007.
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