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Old Sep 11, 2017, 7:03 pm
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Mict
 
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Originally Posted by hfly
1. There have been plenty of 747's at IST over the years. The airport can handle them easily (well as easily as it can handle any additional flights). I also believe that the newest gates (those opened about a 14 months ago) can handle A380's. So the claim above that the airport cannot handle them is untrue (and to spell it out I can recall at different times Saudia, El Al, Thai- a long time ago, and others operating 747's out of IST regularly.
IST can't handle ICAO Cat F aircraft (A380 and B747-8i), the 747-400 or bellow are ICAO Cat E aircraft so no problem for those.

This is not a gate issue but a taxiway problem here I believe.
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