TAV Airports is focusing on new airport investments in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The company served 113 million passengers in 2025 and operates a total of 15 airports in Türkiye, North Macedonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Latvia, Saudi Arabia and Croatia.
Listed on Borsa Istanbul, TAV Airports is also included in the BIST Sustainability Index. The company continues its efforts to achieve its net-zero emissions target by 2050.
New overseas investment target
TAV Airports Executive Board Chair Serkan Kaptan said civil aviation in Türkiye had developed through privatization efforts that began in the early 2000s and investments in new terminals. Kaptan said Türkiye had gained a strong position in aviation infrastructure thanks to its new terminals and technologies.
Kaptan said current investments at the airports operated by the company were continuing. He announced that a second-phase investment was planned at Almaty Airport in Kazakhstan, that investment in a new terminal at Medina Airport in Saudi Arabia was continuing, and that a terminal expansion project was under way in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Renovation and expansion projects are also being carried out at the company’s other airports. Kaptan said airports in regions where passenger traffic is growing rapidly needed to be continuously renovated or expanded, adding that TAV was targeting new airport investments around the world.
North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia are among the regions on TAV’s agenda. Kaptan said they were pleased with the investment in Almaty and were assessing opportunities in Central Asia.
Kaptan said an official airport tender had been opened in Egypt and that TAV had passed the qualification process, adding that the company was one of the participants in the tender process. He said TAV had been operating an airport in Tunisia since 2007.
Artificial intelligence is being used in passenger services
Kaptan said TAV attached importance to the use of artificial intelligence at the airports it operates. He said the technology was first being introduced in passenger services and that work was under way to improve satisfaction and speed up procedures by analyzing the time passengers spend at airports and their movements.
