Last flight leaves Ataturk as Istanbul switches airports

By Yesim Dikmen

作者：Yesim Dikmen

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The last commercial passenger flight took off from Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Saturday and convoys of trucks ferried thousands of tonnes of equipment across the city to a giant new airport which Turkey plans to make the biggest in the world.

伊斯坦布尔（路透社） - 上周六，伊斯坦布尔阿塔图尔克机场的最后一班商务客机起飞，卡车车队运送了数千吨设备整个城市到达一个巨大的新机场，土耳其计划成为世界上最大的机场。

The mammoth transfer between the two hubs, described by Turkish authorities as unprecedented in scale and speed, was already largely complete a little more than 24 hours after it began before dawn on Friday.

两个枢纽之间庞大的转移，土耳其当局描述为规模和速度前所未有在星期五黎明前开始的24小时后，它已基本完成。

The new Istanbul Airport, costing some $8 billion and one of several mega-projects championed by President Tayyip Erdogan, will initially be able to handle 90 million passengers a year, close to the world's largest existing airport capacity.

新的伊斯坦布尔机场，耗资约80亿美元，并且是由几个大型项目中的一个支持的总统塔伊普·埃尔多安（Tayyip Erdogan）最初将能够每年处理9000万乘客，接近世界上现有最大的机场容量。

Authorities plan to expand that capacity to expand to 200 million.

当局计划将这一能力扩大到2亿。

Overnight hundreds of trucks carried equipment such as aircraft-towing vehicles and security sensors from Ataturk, on the shores of the Sea of Marmara, 20 miles (30 km) north to the new airport by the Black Sea.

一夜之间，数百辆卡车从阿塔图尔克（Ataturk）的海岸上运载了飞机牵引车和安全传感器等设备。马尔马拉海，距离黑海新机场以北20英里（30公里）。

By early Saturday more than 90 percent of the move was complete, Turkish Airlines executive Yahya Ustun said.

周六早些时候，超过90％的搬迁工作完成，土耳其航空公司高管叶海亚Ustun说道。

Overnight the final commercial passenger flight from Ataturk took off for Singapore, a departure which Transport Minister Mehmet Turhan described as historic.

一夜之间，从阿塔图尔克起飞的最后一班商务客机起飞前往新加坡，交通部长穆罕默德·图尔汗称之为历史性的。

“I am glad to send you off as the last commercial passengers of Ataturk Airport,” he said moments before the plane took off at 2.44 am (2344 GMT). “Upon your return, you will land in Istanbul Airport, a monument of victory, the world's biggest airport.”

“我很高兴作为阿塔图尔克机场的最后一位商业乘客送你去，”他说，飞机在凌晨2点44分（格林威治标准时间2344）起飞前一刻。 “返回后，您将登陆伊斯坦布尔机场，这是世界上最大的机场胜利纪念碑。”

The new airport, which was formally opened nearly six months ago but which has been handling less than 20 flights a day, inaugurated its new chapter on Saturday afternoon with a domestic flight taking off for the capital Ankara.

新机场近六个月前正式开放，但是每天处理不到20个航班，星期六下午为首都安卡拉起飞国内航班，开启了新篇章。