Speaker Biograghy: Graham is a Director of the Aviation Business in Arup, and also serves as the Deputy Chair of the British Aviation Group. He has over 20 years’ consultancy experience in the aviation sector – gained on strategic planning and development projects within North America, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Australasia. He led the technical advisory team supporting the consortium in its successful tender for the new Istanbul Airport concession, and was more recently responsible for the new airport master plan


Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development - Middle East & Asia

09:55 - 10:20 - Masterplanning the mega hub: introducing the new Istanbul Airport
Synopsis: A new international airport is being developed in Istanbul, supporting the rapid growth of Turkish aviation, with an ultimate capacity of over 150mppa. Being developed under a PPP process by the Turkish consortium of Cengiz, Mapa, Limak, Kolin and Kalyon, the first phase of the airport, with a capacity of 90mppa, is due to open in 2018. This presentation will describe the background to the development of the project, and provide an overview of the master plan for the new airport – highlighting some of the challenges of building and operating a six-runway airport.

Audience will learn:

• The context to the development of the new Istanbul Airport
• The key considerations in masterplanning a greenfield mega hub
• The particular drivers in the masterplanning of a major PPP development
• The unique challenges of the new Istanbul Airport project
• The next steps in development of the project

Day 3 - 27 March
Session: Increasing Airport Capacity

09:00 - 09:00 - Conference Chair
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