FIRM NEWS ABOUT GAZIPASA AIRPORT 

The runway in GazipaÅŸa Airport, located in eastern Antalya, will be expanded and the area surrounding the runway will soon be nationalised, a local government official has said. This will create a property boom in the area.
GazipaÅŸa Gov. Ä°smail Gültekin told the Anatolia news agency that the airport’s 1,800-metre runway will be extended to 2,400 metres by the end of September 2009 to allow larger airplanes to land. “The 50-hectare land around the airport will be state-owned for this purpose. We have met 10 different land owners who all agreed to sell their land and signed an initial contract.”
Tepe Akfen Ventures Airports Holding, the operator of the airport, have nearly completed preparations for expansion and lighting works, Gültekin added.
When the expansion works are completed, bigger planes such as Boeing 737-300s and Boeing 737-500s will be able to use GazipaÅŸa Airport, both for scheduled and charter flights. “Such flights will meet the region’s demands and help a tourism and property boom in Alanya and GazipaÅŸa,” said Gültekin.
GazipaÅŸa Airport opened last month but has yet to receive its first commercial flight. It is expected help the eastern Alanya-Mersin route develop and ease traffic in the western Alanya-Antalya direction.

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