TUrkey

SEPANG- Malaysia Airports’ fully owned Turkish asset, the Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport (ISG), has shown encouraging recovery in 1H21 with total passenger traffic movements at 53% of pre-COVID-19 levels and an average load factor of 70% for its flights. Airports Council International (ACI) had also ranked the airport as the 4th busiest in Europe within the same period.

SEPANG – In October 2020, Eurocontrol announced that Malaysia Airports’ overseas asset Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (IATA Code: SAW) in Turkey was ranked as the fifth busiest airport in Europe, registering a daily average of almost 500 flights. Eurocontrol is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The Malaysia Airports group’s sustainability is well supported by the encouraging recovery seen at SAW in the last several months. Since July 2020, passenger traffic at SAW contributed more than 50% to the group’s total.