Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is one of the airports serving Istanbul, Turkey. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the world's first female combat pilot. It is on the Asian side of the bicontinental city, Istanbul. It was built because the Atatürk International Airport (on the European side) was not large enough to meet the booming passenger demands (both domestic and international). SAW's international terminal capacity is 3M passengers/year and the domestic terminal capacity is 0.5M/year.

International Flights Terminal consists of three lounges: two operating for departures, A and B, and one for arrivals. Each departure lounge accommodates 11 check-in counters and 4 boarding gates, and arrival section contains 12 passport counters. Electronic systems include Flight Information Display System (FIDS), Closed Circuit Television System (CCTV), Card Access Control System, Central Clock, Public Address and Music Broadcasting, Automatic Fire Detection and Carpark Fare Systems.

The Airport also has A fully automatic luggage conveyor system to realize all luggage handling processes of the 3,500,000 passengers/year capacity is available. The conveyor system is capable of detecting all kinds of explosives, brought by the passengers or incoming with the luggage