{"id":17080,"date":"2022-01-25T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=17080"},"modified":"2022-01-25T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:43:09","slug":"istanbul-airport-closed-due-to-heavy-snowfall-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/istanbul-airport-closed-due-to-heavy-snowfall-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Airport closed due to heavy snowfall in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">The closure of Europe\u2019s most active airport grounds flights extending from the Middle East and Africa to Europe and Asia.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot_4-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot_4-8.png 761w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot_4-8-600x351.png 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot_4-8-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot_4-8-750x439.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Turkish Airlines |aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Europe\u2019s most active airport shut down in Istanbul while schools and vaccination centers closed in Athens as a rare snowstorm blanketed swathes of the eastern Mediterranean region, causing blackouts and traffic havoc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-middle-east-and-africa-to-europe-and\">Middle East and Africa to Europe and  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The closure of&nbsp;Istanbul Airport, where the top of one of the cargo terminals collapsed under the heavy snow, causing no damages, grounded flights stretching from the Middle East and Africa to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Europe <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asia\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Asia <\/a>on Monday.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Travel officials told the news agency it marked the gleaming glass-and-steel structure\u2019s first shutdown since it replaced Istanbul\u2019s old Ataturk Airport as the new hub for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkishairlines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Turkish Airlines<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to adverse situations, all flights at Istanbul Airport have been temporarily stopped for flight security,\u201d the airport told in a comment on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our teams are carrying out cleaning works on the apron, runway and taxiway to resume flight operations. \u2708\ufe0f Despite adverse weather conditions and heavy snowfall our work continues at full speed. \ud83c\udf28\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Xlc3CzYVy\">pic.twitter.com\/3Xlc3CzYVy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; iGA Istanbul Airport (@igairport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/igairport\/status\/1485609846078676997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The shutdown dealt the main headache to the 16 million citizens of&nbsp;Turkey\u2019s&nbsp;largest city, where cars plowed into each other skidding down steep, sleet-covered streets, and highways shifted into parking lots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Istanbul governor\u2019s office alerted drivers they would not be able to enter the city from Thrace, a region stretching across the European part of Turkey to its western border with Bulgaria and Greece. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Shopping malls closed earlier, food delivery services shut down and the city\u2019s iconic \u201csimit\u201d bagel stalls stood empty because suppliers could not make their way through the snow.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-istanbul-airport-serviced\">Istanbul Airport serviced <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Traffic officials also shut main roads across large parts of central and southeastern Turkey, a mountainous region first hit by a snowstorm last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Istanbul Airport serviced more than 37 million passengers last year, becoming one of the world\u2019s most important air hubs.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/394979_5622852_updates.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/394979_5622852_updates.jpg 700w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/394979_5622852_updates-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/394979_5622852_updates-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had long questioned his decision to place the airport on a remote patch along the Black Sea coast that is often covered with fog in the winter. Turkish Airlines told it was suspending all Istanbul Airport flights until at least 4 am (01:00 GMT) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-greece-the-health-ministry-announced\">Greece, the health ministry announced  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;Greece, the health ministry declared that COVID-19 vaccination centers in the wider Athens region of Attica and on the nearby island of Evia would shut at 3 pm (13:00 GMT) on Monday and would stay closed on Tuesday because of the heavy snowfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou told weather conditions would continue to be \u201cdifficult\u201d on Tuesday. Authorities warned the public to limit outdoor activities to only essential ones on Monday and Tuesday, while schools in many places were shut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also, read        <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/air-indias-to-be-handovered-to-the-tata-group-by-end-of-january\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Air India\u2019s to be handover to the Tata group by end of January<\/a>     <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/23\/the-uns-civil-aviation-agency-icao-declared-this-week-that-it-had-achieved-a-report-about-the-investigation-into-belaruss-diversion-of-the-ryanair-flight-4978-in-may-last-year\/\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\">The UN\u2019s aviation (ICAO) is not convinced by Belarusian authorities<\/a>    <\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/21\/air-india-restarts-flights-to-the-us-from-21-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Air India restarts flights to the US from 21 January<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-domestic-and-international-flights\">Domestic and international flights  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Oikonomou expressed more than 46,000 school classes across the country were being held online. Several domestic and international flights to Athens airport were canceled, while subway service to the airport was partially suspended as some of it runs outside the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220124_2_51875650_72926051-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17084\" width=\"783\" height=\"491\" \/><figcaption><strong>Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A cold snap with sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds last hit Athens in February 2021, killing four people on the islands of Evia and Crete and leaving tens of thousands of households without electricity for days.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stay updated with Aviationa2z.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closure of Europe\u2019s most active airport grounds flights extending from the Middle East and Africa to Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[152,104,1895,426,109,1602,5192,5193,2644,2645],"class_list":{"0":"post-17080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-airport","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-flights","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-istanbul","14":"tag-istanbul-airport","15":"tag-snowfall","16":"tag-turkey","17":"tag-turkish-airlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17088,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions\/17088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}