Explosion at instanbul airport

Bazzy

Seems to be an attack.

http://www.independent.ie/incoming/ten-people-killed-20-injured-in-explosion-at-istanbul-airport-34841641.html

Not good news in any sense

Noxegon

Driving a few more nails into the coffin that once held the Turkish tourist industry...

Bazzy

Seems that way.

Airports / Public transport are a soft targets and its a crying shame

I wonder will we ever see an end to terrorism

e92335i

Mad - I have the following reserved with Trailfinders and was going to pull the trigger earlier today until the missus freaked out that I was going through Istanbul, didn't believe her when she told me the news just now...

turk by Stephen L, on Flickr

Go ahead or re-route???

Irish Steve

Having travelled through Istanbul last year, these suicide bombers have carried out their acts before the security check that is literally at the door of the terminal, which is an incredibly busy and congested area.

You will be a transit passenger, so you will be going nowhere near the area where this has happened, and you may be sure that the response of the security services in Turkey will be to increase the inspections and surveillance on the entrance to the airport, so it's unlikely that there will be a repeat in the timescale you are looking at.

KingBrian2

State of emergency has been called for a while in Turkey.

jimbis

Flights are still leaving? Or at least the last one was 10 mins ago.

donvito99

Yeah this is a transit that is carried out by thousands of Irish in particular every year. Turkish have a very large presence here it would seem, as well as lots of Irish out there it would seem. If you are a transit pax, as said above, you're in an altogether more secure area than a publically accessible arrivals/departures hall.

I wonder if there will be a re think regarding the processing of passengers globally following this and the Brussels attack. I can't for the life of me think of any way of seriously reducing concentrations of passengers or better securing all the airport activities effectively, though.

JCX BXC

Bomb attack at Istanbul, neat line of diversions forming! Izmir or Bodrum at my guess.

Meanwhile I'm at a resort in Southern Turkey, near Dalaman, and the power went for about 1 minute, that really scared the people aware of the attack on Istanbul!

ATC now informing aircraft that the airport is Closed for the foreseeable future and that aircraft should divert.

Edit: Most to Izmir, alot to Ankara, some to Antalya.

I posted the above in the FR24 thread.

Airports and even hotels here seem well secured, lots of secuity personnel around.

jimbis

CCTV Footage of one of the explosions.

https://twitter.com/mahirzeynalov/status/747890126966112256

Doesn't look like a grenade to me.

J.pilkington

From a cold / business point of view very bad news for Turkish airways who were really making inroads into developing a business based on a quality(planes, airport, staff etc) and affordable experience

Just like Tunisia it's the locals (ironically also Muslims) who will suffer in the long run.

Zonda999

Really terrible news for the country and the country's aviation industry

J.pilkington wrote: »

From a cold / business point of view very bad news for Turkish airways who were really making inroads into developing a business based on a quality(planes, airport, staff etc) and affordable experience

Just like Tunisia it's the locals (ironically also Muslims) who will suffer in the long run.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the terrorist tactic, just like Tunisia as you say, target a country's economy, rising employment and impoverishment to allow disillusionment grow.

GrahamThomas

Awful to hear, it's an airport I've been in several times myself.

Is the airport likely to be closed for long? know someone who is due to transit through early Thursday morning, was wondering if they'll need to make alternative arrangements

Locker10a

GrahamThomas wrote: »

Awful to hear, it's an airport I've been in several times myself.

Is the airport likely to be closed for long? know someone who is due to transit through early Thursday morning, was wondering if they'll need to make alternative arrangements

I guess their airline will re route them if the airport is suffering significant disruption

JCX BXC

Appears to be reopening, aircraft earlier heading for a diversion now resuming to IST.

ned14

Well I'll let you all know what the place looks like tomorrow evening...