After 7 years of silence, Canakkale Airport has reopened its doors with flights between Canakkale and Istanbul. A Ceremony has been organised in order to celebrate the reopenning of the Canakkale Airport. Transportation Minister, Binali YILDIRIM, has attended the ceremony and stated that transportation is the engine of improvement of countries. Minister YILDIRIM added that if we can not sustain comfortable and high quality transportation infrastructure, we can not compete in the world market conditions. Minister YILDIRIM also stressed his happiness of reopenning of Canakkale Airport. President of Atlasjet Executive Board, Mr Murat Ersoy, told that they have received immense support from the ministry of transportation. Mr Ersoy added that with the openning of Canakkale Airport, Turkey is now connected from its west end to the east end.