Mes: octubre 2018

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NEWARK AIRPORT BUILDING A NEW TERMINAL TO RELIEVE CONGESTION

A $2.7 billion project is underway at Newark Liberty International Airport to replace one of its oldest and existing terminals and help catapult the airport city into the next century.

The million-square-foot Terminal One, as it will be called, will replace the antiquated Terminal A, which has been around since 1972, said Catherine Cronin, program director of redevelopment at Newark Airport.

She said Terminal One will have a more modern feel, more technology embedded in it and more access to Wi-Fi. Visitors will be able to get through security faster with a centralized security checkpoint. There also will be more of the mobile check-in pods.

«We’re going to be able to build it off to the southern portion of the airport, an entirely new roadway network, which will keep you out of the traffic for folks going to Terminal B and Terminal C,» she said.

Cronin said local content will be provided so you know you are at a New Jersey terminal. Some of that includes farm-fresh type food. There will be entertainment and shopping.

They’re also working to make sure there’s plenty of things for people to do while they are waiting to board their plane, just like at other terminals that have been built recently, said Cronin. There’s art programs happening, they want to make sure they’re incorporating things in the New Jersey Hall of Fame and input from other local artists and performers.

Terminal One will also help relieve congestion at baggage claim, check-in and security areas, said Cronin. There will be 18 check-in lanes that will serve the entire terminal plus all new modern  technology that processes much faster.

Baggage claim will have a larger hall for passengers to circulate and exit.

The project on the roadway component started last year. This past April, the airport gave notice to the contractor to proceed. Part of Terminal One should be completed in 2021 but the entire project should be done in 2022.

Cronin said the airport staged it so they can move the airlines out of Concourse A1 and A2 into the terminal, allowing them to finish the air field that requires the demolition of the concourses. Then they will move the final airlines in 2022 and demolish Concourse A3.

Terminal One will serve 13.6 million fliers through 33 gates and a new parking garage. It’s also expected to create more than 23,000 jobs.

While Terminal One is being built, Cronin said they don’t want to neglect the existing Terminal A. The construction should not impact customers going through Terminal A.

Source: New Jersey 101.5

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Saudi to launch new SAR2.5bn airport project in Jazan

A new SAR2.5bn ($66.6m) airport project is set to be launched in the Saudi city of Jazan on Monday, the official Saudi press Agency (SPA) reported.

The King Abdullah airport project, which will be implemented at a site located 30km north of the centre of Jazan city, is located on a total area of 57,500 square metres.

The project will be implemented within three and a half years and is slated to be “one of the most important developmental projects and cultural landmarks” in the Jazan region, the report stated.

Saudi Arabia’s aviation market is seeing strong growth on the back of the kingdom’s ambitious Vision 2030 programme, which aims to diversify the economy.

The country’s airports recorded 8 per cent passenger growth in 2017, to reach 91.8 million, with numbers anticipated to hit 100 million in 2018, according to GACA.

The Saudi government has also approved an expansion plan for the country’s airports, which will see old airports renovated and new ones constructed.

There are 26 airports in Saudi Arabia with commercial services, with Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam and Madinah handling more than five million passengers each in 2017.

The planned expansion includes the redevelopment of the airports in Abha, Al Ahsa, Al Qassim, Arar, Hail and Jazan, as well as new terminals at the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. There are also plans to develop new airports in Al-Qunfudah, Farasan Island and Taif, Riyadh North and Riyadh South.

Source: Gulf News

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New terminal for international departures at Hyderabad Airport to open on Oct 23

The Interim International Departure Terminal at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad will be made operational on October 23.

According to GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), the airport operator, all international departure flights will operate from this terminal with effect from 10:30 am on October 23.

IIDT, which has been built to facilitate airport’s expansion, is located adjacent to the Haj Terminal and can be accessed from both Shamshabad and Srisailam sides of the airport’s main approach road via Rotary 1 (Cargo rotary).

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad is projected to handle 20 million passengers during the current financial year as it embarks on an expansion that will take its overall capacity to 40 million passengers per annum.

One of India’s modern world-class airports built in public-private partnership, it completed 10 years in March, 2018. Designed for a capacity of 12 million, it is currently handling 18 million passengers per annum.

Kishore said Hyderabad had been the fastest growing airport over the last 3-4 years. «In 2015 we celebrated 10 million passengers. We have almost doubled this year and by March next year we would have handled 20 million passengers,» he said.

The expansion works, which will take the overall capacity to 34-40 million passengers, are likely to be completed in 2-3 years. By the time the expansion is completed, the passenger traffic may touch 24-27 million.

Hyderabad Airport had crossed 20% growth in domestic passenger traffic and with international passenger traffic, the airport has been growing at around 20% annually for last three years.

Source: The News Minute

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Turkish firm to start building Sudan’s ‘biggest airport’

A Turkish construction company will start building Sudan’s biggest airport early next year, according to the firm’s chair.

“We will lay the foundation for the Khartoum International Airport in the first quarter of 2019 and complete it in less than 36 months,” Selim Bora, the chair of the construction firm Summa, told state-run Anadolu Agency.

Bora stated that the three-phase project is worth $1.15 billion.

“First we will build a terminal with a 6 million-person [annual] capacity along with all infrastructure services, runways, and airport aprons,” he said.

Bora added that the airport’s annual capacity will reach 9 million in the second phase and 12 million in the third phase.

The project, developed on the build-operate-transfer model, is currently in the design phase, he said.

Saying that Sudan has the largest surface area in Africa, Bora added the airport will also serve other countries in the region.

“Airports in Cairo and Addis Ababa are currently the most important and effective ones on the continent,” he noted.

Investing in Africa since 2007

Bora said he hoped the air passenger traffic in those airports will shift to Khartoum International Airport, which enjoys geographical advantages.

He said Summa entered the African market in 2007 by doing several projects in Libya and then in Equatorial Guinea.

The company has continued African projects in countries such as Senegal, Rwanda, Congo, Niger, Sudan, and Benin, he added.

“Niger will host next year’s African Union Summit next July, so the country needs infrastructure services and investments,” Bora said.

He said the renovation of an airport and construction of a five-star hotel in Niger will be completed in July 2019.

In March Summa signed the deal with Sudan’s Finance Ministry to build the new Khartoum airport.

Source: Hürriyet Daily News