iGA Istanbul Airport Signed the “Sister Airports” Agreement with Airports of Thailand (AOT) and Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV).

iGA Istanbul Airport, Türkiye’s gateway to the world and the area’s most necessary world hub, signed a “Sister Airports Memorandum of Understanding” with Airports of Thailand (AOT) in Bangkok and with Airports Company of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.

Because of the related cooperation with Türkiye, essential advantages shall be provided to the economies of those international locations, along with the tourism potential of Thailand and Vietnam.

iGA Istanbul Airport, some of the prestigious airports on this planet, signed a memorandum of understanding with Airports of Thailand (AOT) to ascertain a sister airports relationship. It has been introduced that the cooperation settlement signed by Kadri Samsunlu, CEO of iGA Istanbul Airport, and Nitinai Sirismatthakarn, President of Airports of Thailand in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, will add a brand new dimension to the connection between the 2 international locations.

Nitinai Sirismatthakarn, President of Airports of Thailand, highlighted that he’s honoured to take part within the occasion the place the Memorandum of Understanding was signed by AOT and iGA Istanbul Airport and added: “I need to thank Kadri Samsunlu, CEO of iGA Istanbul Airport and the senior administration of iGA for coming to Bangkok for this unbelievable occasion. Immediately’s signing ceremony will undoubtedly strengthen the connection between AOT and iGA.”

iGA Istanbul Airport has additionally signed one other “Sister Airports” settlement in Vietnam. The “Sister Airport” Memorandum of Understanding which was signed with Airports Company of Vietnam (ACV) in Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, was signed by the CEO of the iGA Istanbul Airport, Kadri Samsunlu, and the Head of Airports Company of Vietnam (ACV), Lai Xuan Thanh, and the Vice Chairman, Nguyen Quoc Phuong.

Lai Xuan Thanh, Head of Airports Company of Vietnam (ACV) said that “As Airports Company of Vietnam, we’re honoured to signal a Sister Airports settlement with iGA Istanbul Airport. As we’re witnessing the quick restoration of civil aviation and tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a superb alternative for us. Türkiye is an important bridge connecting Asia and Europe, and Vietnam is strengthening its place notably in Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific. This cooperation will promote the invention of recent routes between the 2 areas and develop commerce and funding alternatives.” 

“We consider within the significance of shut stakeholder relationships and the facility of shared knowledge…”

Kadri Samsunlu, CEO of iGA Istanbul Airport, declared that he’s happy to signal the “Sister Airports Memorandum of Understanding” between Airports of Thailand (AOT), Airports Company of Vietnam and iGA Istanbul Airport as representatives of three international locations acknowledged as important locations in world tourism who’re coming collectively to develop cooperation within the aviation sector. Samsunlu stated: “The worldwide economic system’s centre of gravity is shifting from the West to the East. With its younger and thriving inhabitants of 4.4 billion, Asia has important potential on account of its tourism capability and dynamic economic system. We presently dwell in an financial system the place the west consumes items created within the east. This week, our new sister airports which we’re delighted to have collaborated with function round 30 airports in Southeast Asia together with the world’s main tourism locations equivalent to Bangkok, Phuket, and Hanoi.  I consider there are important financial enlargement alternatives between Southeast Asia and Türkiye. Our airport hosts solely six Asian airways (50% of them after the inauguration of iGA Istanbul Airport) on this planet’s greatest aviation continent whereas working a stable flight community in accordance with our geographical location the place Europe, Center East, and Africa vacation spot cross. We count on a lot heavier flight visitors from Asia, which we consider has very excessive potential to develop, to the west within the medium time period. Our aim right here is to be the primary vacation spot which begins to obtain flights in Europe. The brand new Sister Airports cooperations, which we signed as we speak, will enable the brand new flights to iGA Istanbul Airport to begin, and the brand new visitors that can come up from the South Asia, and not directly, Asia-Pacific areas, to be linked to iGA Istanbul Airport, along with contributing to the nation’s economic system by main hundreds of vacationers to go to our nation by means of our metropolis, Istanbul. On behalf of the iGA Istanbul Airport workforce, which believes in shut stakeholder relationships and the facility of shared knowledge, I want our Asia-focused development technique, which we’ve got enforce with China and South Korea, and now expanded with Thailand (AOT), and Vietnam (ACV), brings all one of the best to our sector and organisations.”  

Sister Airport Agreements have the standard of formally outlining the method of sharing airports’ finest technical, industrial and environmental practices. Sister airport agreements cowl processes equivalent to constructing joint job teams to cooperate in varied areas, together with airport administration, buyer companies, development, planning, operations, info expertise and sustainable improvement. Whereas this settlement doesn’t essentially have any binding clauses for the events, the CEOs of the member airports meet yearly to change concepts. iGA Istanbul Airport had beforehand signed sister airports agreements with Seoul Incheon Airport (ICN) of South Korea, Capital Airports Holdings Ltd. (CAH) and Shanghai Airport Authority (SAA) of China, and Copenhagen Airport (CPH) in Denmark.