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Aug 17, 2019, 9:31 am

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Originally Posted by mafaky

Are you really positive about that observance of yours, that (at least one) commercial passenger flight diverted to ISL (the Ataturk AP)? We have not heard of this kind of diversion, neither today nor in the past - since current IST has become operational. After 6th April, a lot of wide bodies are using ISL but these are exclusively the all-cargo planes and Turkish Republic's Presidential flights.

This was a double-post by @RetiredATLATC. As discussed at the TK Forum already, it is a glitch on Flightradar24.
You are right that operations at new IST are smooth currently.

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