The last commercial passenger flight took off from Istanbul's Ataturk airpo...
A Turkish Airlines plane is seen on the tarmac of the city's new Istanbul Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, April 6, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
The mammoth transfer between the two hubs, described by Turkish authorities as unprecedented in scale and speed, was already largely complete a little more than 24 hours after it began before dawn on Friday. By early Saturday more than 90 percent of the move was complete, Turkish Airlines executive Yahya Ustun said.
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