Gerald Ong, Director, Aviation Marketing, Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, discusses the impact of COVID-19 and the airport’s crisis management strategy.
This is the first time in history that the airport has ever been closed and experienced a decrease in traffic. Between March and May, Sabiha Gökçen is expected to lose over 80% of passengers, over seven million passengers, as well as over 45,000 flight movements. Over 95% of its traffic network is concentrated on the Europe, CIS and Middle East regions.”
“Being a busy terminal and operating on a single runway, we saw this as a window of opportunity for us to carry out the full rehabilitation and refurbishment of the runway and apron facilities.”...more
