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New routes to Bodrum

Bodrum is a recent addition to the choice of destinations available when flying from Yorkshire's Robin Hood Airport and has helped significantly increase the number of passengers travelling to Turkey.A decision to capitalise on the ever-growing popularity of holidays to the picturesque Turkish port by introducing the new route helped Robin Hood Airport attract around 120,000 passengers to fly from its terminals last month.The airport, which is situated near the cities of Sheffield and Doncaster, experienced a 17 per cent increase in July compared with the same month last year, according to...

15-08-2007 - read more...

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SGA goes private

Sabiha Gokcen Airport (SGA) - the second largest in Istanbul - has started to hand over its management to the private sector, according to the Turkish Daily News.Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industry (DMHI) will take control of SGA and more airports are set to go private in the coming years, with the company starting the second phase of its project in 2008 in which it plans to take over more Turkish airports from the government.The Ministry of Transport allocated DMHI a tender to manage Bodrum Airport in August 2006, but had to cancel it due to slow investment in the project.There are also many...

02-08-2007 - read more...

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