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UPDATE. Slovakia will try to rent out Bratislava Airport

Transport Minister Árpád Érsek proposes renting Bratislava airport to a concessionaire for 30 years, the SITA newswire wrote.

It cited a draft public-private partnership project for selecting a concessionaire for the operation of M.R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava (BTS), which his department submitted on October 26 for a fast-tracked interdepartmental review.

The expedited review should be closed as early as on November 2, as the Ministry claims, there is an urgent need to carry out further actions resulting from the project as well as the entire procedure of selecting a concessionaire. According to the proposed schedule, the concession agreement could come into force as soon as 2021.

The documents ultimately find a strategic partner to be the best solution, with the State acquiring an extra €61 million, and a higher residential value for BTS when it is returned.

The planned timeline
The conclusion of the concession is expected by June 2020, after a public tender. Its subject should be the operation, maintenance and development of Bratislava airport, while the runways and the connected infrastructure should remain in the ownership of BTS, according to Sme.

“By implementing the project of public-private-partnership in the form of granting a concession, the long-term sustainable development of M. R. Štefánik Airport will be secured,” the ministry predicts, as cited by Sme. “The precondition is that the strategic partner improves the competitive position of BTS in the region and increases the offer and quality of the airport services.

Source: The Slovak Spectator

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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

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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