Categoría: Ampliaciones de aeropuertos

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Bush Intercontinental Airport: new plans for international terminal

An airport official on Thursday outlined a new $1.2 billion plan for redeveloping the international terminal at Bush Intercontinental Airport, and it’s a dramatically different approach from the proposal detailed nearly three years ago.

The new plan is to, essentially, combine Terminals D and E by 2024. All of the ticketing counters, security lanes and baggage claims will be consolidated and moved to Terminal E. Then there will be two concourses — one in the current Terminal D and one in the current Terminal E — where passengers will board their planes, grab food or relax in an airport lounge.

The previous plan sought to tear down and rebuild Terminal D. Houston Airport System Director Mario Diaz detailed the differences, new timeline and budget on Thursday during a meeting of the City Council’s Economic Development Committee.

The new plan will demolish a parking garage to build a new ticketing area in Terminal E. The loss in parking spaces will be offset by adding two additional levels to the Terminal C garage.

The Airport System will also demolish the old Terminal C North — United Airlines already built a new Terminal C North to accommodate the airport’s expansion plan — to make way for six wide-body gates that can accommodate the largest planes calling on Houston.

Source: Houston Chronicle

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Leeds Bradford Airport has announced a multi-million pound new terminal building

The airport is to construct a new £12m arrivals hall in order to allow larger aircraft to access the terminal and improve the visitor experience of passnegers upon arriving.

Its bosses say the investment in the three-storey building will be completed by the end of next year and lead to increased levels of inward investment into the Yorkshire region. The contractor for the development work is set to be announced in the next few days and will be required to commit to an apprenticeship programme using local people as part of the deal.

The expansion is part of a three-phase programme from boses to make the airport an international destination.

A recent report from the Department for Transport said it expected Leeds Bradford Airport to be the nation’s fastest growing airport and hit passenger numbers of seven million per year by 2030.

David Laws, chief executive of the airport, said the investment would create “an airport Yorkshire can be proud of” and that he needed a strong terminal to attract new airlines to the airport.

Source: Yorkshire Evening Post

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Rarotonga International Airport (Cook Islands): Airport eyes first ‘master plan’

For the first time in its 44-year history, Rarotonga International Airport is looking to put together a master plan that will help guide the facility’s future development.

The Airport Authority is going to tender sometime this week for the development of a master plan, says Authority chief executive Joe Ngamata.

“This master plan will provide the framework needed to guide future development in a rational, prudent and sustainable manner,” he explains.

Ngamata predicts that work on this important future-proofing project should be completed by April next year.

The tender process will involve the hiring of a consultant or company that specialises in airport master planning.

While the Airport Authority has conducted studies in the past for various aspects of the airport’s development, this is the first time an overarching master plan has been commissioned.

“It identifies what your traffic projections should be for the next 20 years, it identifies trigger points where you should be starting to build capacity in your facilities – it’s a means of developing the airport to a plan rather than just reacting to the demand when it comes through and building here and there.”

Source: Cook Islands News

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China’s Tengchong Airport opens Terminal 2

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China’s Tengchong Tuofeng Airport opened its second terminal Sept. 9, as part of an expansion program that began in March 2015.

The three-year Terminal 2 project added five new aerobridges and four new Class C aircraft stands, increasing the total stands in the airport to 12.

Tengchong Airport is situated in the Yunnan province, about 700km (435 mi.) west of provincial capital Kunming, and in recent years has seen significant increase in passenger numbers passing through its gates. The airport surpassed its 500,000 passengers mark in 2011 and almost doubled to 997,300 passengers in 2017. It has also handled more than 730,000 so far this year and is expected to hit the 1 million mark by the end of 2018.

The Tengchong Airport Terminal operator, Yunnan Airport Group, said the new facilities will enable the airport to handle 2.3 million passengers, cargo of around 3,100 tonnes and 20,246 aircraft movements annually.

The airport is serviced by China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Lucky Air, Shenzhen Airlines, Chongqing Airlines and Kunming Airlines.

Source: ATW. Air Transport World