High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (IATA: SAW, ICAO: LTFJ) is one of the international airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gokcen, the first female combat pilot in the world. Located 35 km (22 mi) southeast of central Istanbul, it is on the Asian side of the bi-continental city. It was built because Ataturk International Airport (on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international). SAW's international terminal capacity was 3 million passengers per year and the domestic terminal capacity was 0.5 million passengers per year. In June 2007, Turkish conglomerate Limak, India's GMR Group and Malaysia Airport Holding Berhad (MAHB) consortium gained the contract for upgrading and maintaining the airport. In mid-2008, ground was broken to upgrade the international terminal to handle 25 million passengers annually. Данное издание представляет собой...