How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

Video written by Ben Doyle

[Antanana_Rivo]

Love how the thumbnail got it's moving direction wrong :D

[hyprctive]

3:48 where did you ever find a perfect stock video of a flight attendant looking confused serving a drink cart on an empty plane for a 2 second joke?

[alexr]

I was in Istanbul and took the metro to the wrong airport, I realized my mistake halfway through and rushed to call a cab. Mustafa drove me over the Bosporus Bridge with 100 km/h and I made my flight, will never forget this 😂

[Rifat.Rafael.Birmizrahi]

I was in on of the last flight that landed in Ataturk Airport. Everything did went normal but everyone was in a nostalgia mood. People were taking pictures and stores were closing for good. The Airport was much emptier than it ever was but it was loud, almost as if it was a well earned retirement party

[imjulianshaw]

HAI definitely considered uploading this video about airports in Turkey on Thanksgiving

[gregboi]

"over 100 meetings" like that isn't how long it takes most corporations to decide what size of paper cups to buy

[justinhd]

100 meetings over 2 years seems astonishingly low

[matskjr]

I was on that very last flight from Ataturk to Singapore, on a classtrip with uni. We were given metal bording cards as suveniers (in addition to paper ones), and some sloppy free food. This comment section is the only place i could ever imagine that somebody might care, so I had to use my chance to brag.

[lars]

Next Video: How Berlin moved its Airport in just 121248 Hours

[boarbot]

The main thing I've learnt from this video is that AtlasJet has a CRAZY airline code. 4:26

[Glosed]

Funnily enough, Munich Airport took that advice towards the end seriously: Their move in 1992 was so successful that they started a consulting subsidiary to advise other airports and airlines planning moves, including Turkish Airlines for the Istanbul move.

[nenenindonu]

The same city used to move ships on land 6 centuries later it's moving airports this is what I call evolution

[Vinno]

with there being so many of the blue trucks that they could line up end-to-end and go from one airport to the other and back again, I'm picturing just a perfect revolving loop of trucks between the two airports

[jd]

Funny thing is, had the move been delayed 1 year, it probably would have been way easier given the lack of passengers

[topon]

Feels like this was planned for a Wendover video

[cnaratay]

Btw the thumbnail is wrong. The direction of transportation should be from Ataturk to Istanbul

[mediagirl]

So.... do I get this right, when I assume that this VERY last flight to Singapore from Atatürk (IST) was possible the only plane ever (or one of very few) who started it's flight on a different Airport than the IATA Code belonged to, than when in landed in Singapore...

[welcomexyzabc]

This would take 7 years in Germany, 6 months in the US, 2.5 hrs in China...

[wardamnsam]

The abbreviation for Atlasjet at 4:22💀

[dh]

The thumbnail says "47 tons of stuff."
That's like one or two trucks, bro.