This could get interesting if there's bad weather near the new airport in Istanbul. Especially for passengers hoping to link up with connecting flights.
Since the full opening in April, a series of diverted flights have raised fears that the airport is up against wholly foreseeable but completely insurmountable problems that have doomed the project from the start.
Earlier this week, flights to Istanbul from Berlin, Basel, Riga, Göteborg, Bremen, Marseille, Edremit, and Elazığ were forced to land in Çorlu, 60 miles west of the new Istanbul airport, after weather conditions made landing at their original destination impossible.
This came as little surprise to the aviation experts who have been warning since the project was conceived that the location chosen for the new airport lacked cover from the northerly winds blowing in from the Black Sea, and would also make it susceptible to disruptions caused by cloud and fog.
These problems are only likely to get worse, experienced figures from Turkey’s aviation sector told Ahval.
Weather conditions that have already caused a slew of disruptions since the airport opened on April 6 will only get worse once the cold winds of winter start to blow, said former pilot Bahadır Altan.https://ahvalnews.com/third-airport/flight-diversions-worrying-sign-new-istanbul-airport-experts-say
