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Angkasa Pura II Eyeing to Manage 3 Airports in Sumatera

State airport operator Angkasa Pura II (AP2) plans to manage three airports in Sumatra. The three airports were previously managed by the Transportation Ministry’s Directorate General of Air Transportation’s Airport Organizing Unit.

The three airports that will be managed by AP2 are Raden Inten in Lampung, Fatmawati in Bengkulu, and Tanjung Pandan in Bangka Belitung.

AP2 president director Muhammad Awaluddin said through a written statement in Jakarta, Tuesday, 1 January that AP2 will also conduct a strategic partnership for the development of several airports.

These projects include the development of Kualamanu Airport, which will later be used as a hub of the western parts of Indonesia, the construction of a business hub at Pekanbaru’s Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport, and the expansion of terminals and other airport air sides.

Today, Angkasa Pura II manages 16 airports throughout Indonesia. In 2018, the company served 115 million passengers, an increase of 9.5 percent compared to 2017’s 105 million passengers.

Source: Tempo.co

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Israel’s second international airport set to open at the end of January

Israel is soon to have a second international airport – Ramon International Airport. 

Situated close to the red-sea holiday spot of Eilat, the international airport will have a runway of 3.6km, which will allow for larger passenger aircraft to use the airport. 

On the 22 January 2019, the airport is expected to begin operations according to the Israel Airports Authority (IAA).  

The project has cost $500 million, and operations at Ramon Airport in the Negev desert will begin to operate gradually, initially with domestic flights, which will then likely progress to allowing international flights to depart and arrive in March 2019, Liza Dvir, an IAA spokeswoman, said.

Dvir commented that the opening of the airport has been postponed slightly due to the process of doubling the amount of parking spaces available to planes to 60, to allow for more traffic to pass through the airport. This delay was also as a result of the project which planned to lengthen the runway to 3.6km, to accommodate larger aircraft.

In 2014, the conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza, where missiles targeted Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport, led to some carriers cancelling their flights for a few days. The addition of a second airport would have minimised the delays caused by this closure.  

Additionally, the Israel government is hoping that the new airport will help boost the economy as a result of the rise in tourism to Eilat. There has already been a lot of interest in the new destination, with a number of foreign carriers already launching winter flights to the Ovda military airfield, 60km from Eilat, for Europeans seeking a warmer climate. The new airport will allow even more tourist to venture further afield. 

The new airport has been designed to initially accommodate more than two million passengers a year with the potential and plans for an expansion to 4.5 million passengers to pass through the terminal a year.

Source: International Airport Review

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Clark International Airport’s new terminal expected to open in 2020

The Department of Transportation said the construction of a new passenger terminal at Clark International Airport is on track and will be operational by 2020.“It’s on track. Hopefully, we can get it operational by 2020,” Transportation Undersecretary for aviation Manuel Antonio Tamayo said.The Megawide-GMR consortium submitted the lowest financial proposal for the airport expansion project at P9.36 billion on Dec. 14, 2017.Clark International Airport is the second main gateway into the country, and the new 100,000-square-meter terminal will double its capacity to eight million passengers a year, boosting air transport capacity for the Greater Manila Area.The project is expected to reduce the strain on the congested Ninoy Aquino International Airport and help create jobs and increase development in Central Luzon, a growing economic center.Clark International Airport is envisioned to be Asia’s next premier gateway.  It now has an annual capacity of four million passengers.

Airlines operating in Clark include Qatar Airways, Cebu Pacific, Tigerair, Jin Air, Asiana Airlines, Dragon Air, AirAsia Berhad, Philippine Airlines and Emirates Airlines. These airlines mount flights to Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Macau, Pudong, Incheon, Doha, Dubai, Davao, Cebu and Kalibo.

 Megawide-GMR is the consortium of local company Megawide Construction Corp. and GMR Infrastructure Ltd. of India. Its unit GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corp. is the builder and operator of Mactan-Cebu International Airport.Earlier, the North Luzon Airport Consortium won the operations and maintenance contract of Clark International Airport’s existing passenger terminal and the new terminal.

North Luzon Airport Consortium members are Filinvest Development Corp., JG Summit Holdings Inc., Philippine Airport Ground Support Solutions Inc. and Changi Airport Philippines Pte. Ltd.

Source: Manila Standard

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Study on P508-B Sangley airport plan submitted

The Sangley Point International Airport, a future alternative to the busy Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) in Manila, remains in the picture as the Cavite provincial government submitted the full project study to the country’s economic planners last month.
The project, said to be aligned with the “One Belt, One Road” policy of the People’s Republic of China, aims to ease air congestion in Naia, where options for expansion are constrained by its location within the capital district of Metro Manila.

It will also provide a site for future air traffic growth without limits posed by the lack of available land.
The feasibility study, dated Dec. 12, 2018 and seen by the Inquirer, was prepared by a team of international and local experts including NATS and RDC from the United Kingdom and Hong Kong’s OTC.
The submission signaled the continued interest of the Cavite government to pursue the massive airport, which would rise on about 1,500 hectares of reclaimed land around a former US naval base in Sangley Point.
Based on the study, the Sangley Airport will cost about P508.5 billion. The first phase involves the opening of one runway by 2023. It has a design capacity of 25 million passengers a year.
More runways will be built in phases, going up to four runways that could serve 130 million passengers a year by 2050. The project will have a 25-year concession period, which can be renewed for another 25 years.
The proposal, made through a novel government to government approach, was initially met with skepticism within the Department of Transportation, which sought clarity on the legal framework and its funding sources.
Based on the feasibility study, the project will be set up as a “government-sponsored international joint venture and economic cooperation initiative.”
This means Sangley Airport will be financed by what it described as a Standard Airport Trust, which will be held by the province of Cavite and Philippine government agencies as trustors while investors will include state-owned financial institutions with CLSA acting as arranger.
The document mentions the Sangley Airport as an investment model intended as a “new exploration of the ‘One Belt, One Road’ business model of state-owned financial institutions of the PRC.

“The participation of Chinese-funded institutions in the construction of the Sangley Airport will help deepen the ties between the Philippines and China, especially deepen mutual trust and maintain regional political and economic stability,” a portion of the study read.

The Cavite government submitted the more than 500-page study to the investment coordination committee of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) last Dec. 17, a source with knowledge of the matter said. It would still require the approval of the Neda board, chaired by President Duterte.

Source: The Inquirer. Philippines