120 million pax/year when fully operational! :)
Anyway the future will show us

TL is 4.66 now... Turkish must definitely start to pay in euros or dollars now. Of course a big airport only will not matter at all. But looks like THY is well established in the market and does well. Hope there will be interesting jobs for pilots in the near future.

I think if you’ve flown into IST anytime in the last 5 years, you’ll understand why they badly need a bigger airport and hence his excitment. If you took all the widebody aircraft out of THY, the airfield would still be too small.

Plus, the pace at which some EU countries approve certain expansions, LHR might get a new taxiway by 2090!

Yeah. I'm in IST almost every month with a wide body at the "center" centerline vacating the landing runway , but when the subject is "where I wanna work" and take my family with, for sure the airport operation is one of my last concerns.

TURKISH LIRA IS 4,7047 NOW ...
.. with tendency to get ABOVE 5 even within this year !!!

Who was saying, he saves 5.000 EUR per month? Man >>> you make me angry !!!:ugh:
The salary at THY is worth nothing :\

Turkish pays negative salary increase:
Now it is officially, announced to Turkish pilots only by the union, the "wonderful" news are:
Salary increasement: First half 2016 add 3,4%, second half 4,4%.

This is a ****storm into the face of any employee. :ouch: :ouch: :ouch:

The inflation rate by itself is already 11-12%, depending on the month in 2016.
Imagine, the initial agreement was in 1st half 2016 inflation rate + 4% = 15,5% and in 2nd half 2016 the inflation rate + 3% => 14,5%.

Within the last 365 days, the currency lost it value by 29% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, the real loss of any THY salary is as high as 25%!!!

Everybody who was staying had hope to some signs, some clear actions by the managment, to make pilots stay. But this respectless doing is a kick into the ass to run away earlier.

Is somebody really interested NOW to join THY?
I could not imagine a SINGLE reason.:sad:

TL is even more down: 4,7148 TRY/EUR now