Saudi Arabia announces Yemen’s Marib Airport project

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today announced an ambitious new airport development project in Yemen that, when complete, will accommodate 2 million travellers a year.

The Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) announced that the airport to be rebuilt is in the historic city of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa. Once complete, it will provide a critical infrastructure hub for the country and region. Whilst underway, it will create approximately 1,000 permanent jobs upon completion, 5,000 jobs during construction, and some 10,000 indirect jobs in ancillary sectors. The work is to be carried out by the same company that built and designed a Chicago airport.

Source: Market Insider

Mexicanos votan contra la construcción de un nuevo aeropuerto junto a la capital del país

747.000 mexicanos, o casi el 70 % del número total de participantes, han votado en contra de la construcción de un nuevo y costoso aeropuerto para la Ciudad de México, con sede en Texcoco, en una consulta popular no oficial llevada a cabo entre el 25 y el 28 de octubre. Algo más de 311.000 mexicanos han apoyado la continuación de las obras, que ya están en curso, informan medios locales.

La votación fue organizada por la Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth, cuyo gerente, Enrique Calderón, ha anunciado estas cifras preliminares desde el cuartel del gabinete de transición del presidente electo de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. El propio ganador de las recientes elecciones presidenciales ha prometido respetar el resultado de la votación.

La participación popular, sin embargo, fue baja: solo votaron 1.058.000 personas, cuando 130 millones tenían derecho a voto.

Gana Santa Lucía

Las obras en Texcoco ya se están realizando desde el 2015. El existente Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez (AICM) había comenzado a registrar sobresaturación años antes de esa fecha. Su capacidad es de 32 millones de pasajeros al año, mientras que recibe actualmente cerca de 44 millones.

Los proyectos alternativos que estimaron los votantes son una ampliación del AICM, englobando dos pistas de despegue y aterrizaje del aeródromo militar de Santa Lucía, y el desarrollo del también existente aeropuerto de la ciudad de Toluca.

Mientras que menos de un 30 % de los participantes optaron por las obras ya en curso, el restó se mostró a favor del nuevo proyecto en Santa Lucía.

Fuente: Actualidad RT

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

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.