Mes: octubre 2018

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Jakarta to Build New Airport to Tackle Overcrowding

Jakarta is all set to welcome a new airport in the outskirts of the city to serve as an alternative to the existing Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, around 15 km north of it. Construction is scheduled to begin from the next decade and will have a public-private partnership. The draft plan obtained from the country’s airport management company details all the works including two runways, passenger terminal, and maintenance centre for aircrafts. Railway and highway construction projects to connect to the airport are also in talks.
The $10 billion project was first proposed in 2011 and is due for completion in 2024. This will be the first new airport in a close proximity to Jakarta since Soekarno-Hatta was opened in 1985. The two airports will have a combined capacity of more than 100 million passengers per year which will surpass Singapore’s Changi Airport, currently the largest airport in Southeast Asia. This comes at a perfect time for Indonesia as it plans to bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics which falls in line with their goal to transform the country into an economic power. With its GDP expected to cross the top 10 by 2030, the nation will see a rise in business travelers and tourists.
This new airport is expected to take some of the load off the already busy Soekarno-Hatta airport which handled a whopping 63 million passengers last year. Building a third terminal in 2016 only lead to crowding and delays and did not help much. Even though the government will begin construction on a fourth terminal and a new runway by 2020, they’re promoting this new airport as a practical solution.

Source: Outlook Traveller

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Daxing airport on pace for 2019 start

The capital on Friday took local and international media on a tour of the Beijing Daxing International Airport, which is expected to start operating in the middle of next year.

Located on the border of Beijing and Langfang, Hebei province, the new airport, which will be Beijing’s second international airport and is positioned to be a large international hub, is now undergoing interior decoration, according to Zhang Xiaofeng, deputy manager of the terminal construction department.

He said the decoration will be completed by the end of this year and the airport is planned to open in 2019.

The project, which costs 80 billion ($11.5 billion), is 46 kilometers from Tian’anmen Square, 26 km from downtown Langfang in Hebei, 55 km from Xiongan New Area, and 67 km from the existing Beijing Capital International Airport, and is expected to serve as the airport hub for North China.

With four runways and a 700,000 square meter terminal area, the airport is expected to be the world’s largest airport upon completion.

The first phase of the airport project is designed for a target of 72 million passengers, 20 million metric tons of cargo and mail, and 620,000 aircraft movements in 2025, with plans to handle 100 million passengers in the long term.

«We have adopted natural light in the terminal design as much as possible and lots of technological innovation in the construction of the integrated transportation,» said Zhang Ru, representative of the project headquarters.

She said the project includes five vertical and two horizontal integrated transportation networks, which will combine highway, intercity railway, high-speed railway and subways with the airport as the center.

Combined with the construction of the Daxing airport, China has planned an airport economic zone. In future, the nation’s international communication center area, aviation technology innovation leading area, coordinated development demonstration area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei will be formed with the Daxing airport at its core.

Source: China.org.cn

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Tampa Bay Airport Expansion Moves Ahead

Tampa International Airport is growing, with a $2 billion expansion and renovation project underway. The phase-one work included road work, a new 1.4-mile SkyConnect people mover, an expansion of the main terminal, a new rental car center and the addition of several local restaurants to the dining options. Phase two, which starts this year, includes a 17-acre commercial development with a hotel and curbside expansion work. Phase 3 , which has not begun yet, will see the addition of a new 16-gate terminal.

Source: Successfull Meeting

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Anguilla: Chief Minister pleased with MOU on airport expansion

Chief Minister Victor Banks opened the October 23 press conference by referencing the just signed airport expansion memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC).
He said, “Today we had a historic signing because the airport project now includes the Canadian government as a stakeholder in its delivery. We are very happy to know that this includes financing aspects of the early development in terms of the analysis and research required for the business case.” The business case will include whether the lands identified to be used for the expansion are geographically capable to support an airport runway. Banks added that the CCC is the agency currently involved in the US $250 million Bermuda airport expansion project.