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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

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Aeropuerto de Tocumen: dos nuevos concursos de retail para la terminal 2

El aeropuerto internacional de Tocumen ha publicado dos nudos concursos de retail. El primero dedicado a la prestación de servicios no aeronáuticos, a título oneroso, para la explotación comercial del negocio de joyeria de alta gama en la terminal 2.

El segundo, para la prestación de servicios no aeronáuticos, a título oneroso, para la explotación comercial del negocio de tienda de artesanías panameñas, también en la terminal 2.

 

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Ljubljana Airport unveils 2019 growth plans

Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport plans to further grow its passenger numbers next year as it prepares to start work on the construction of its new terminal building and drafts plans for the opening of an airport hotel. General Manager, Zmago Skobir, told the «Gorenjski Glas» newspaper, «We are focusing on North Germany, Scandinavia, the former Soviet republics, the Iberian peninsula and Italy. These are destinations that are still missing from our network and we are now getting involved in talks. This year, Adria introduced flights to Hamburg and Dusseldorf, and next year we expect flights to Stockholm. Rome, Madrid and Barcelona also have great potential, but these are very demanding markets where Slovenia is not yet recognisable enough. We are also looking at alternatives for the Middle and Far East through Dubai or Doha, but we have very strong competition for these markets in Zagreb, Belgrade, Venice and Vienna. We have invested a lot of effort to convince carriers that our market is small but of great quality, as well as economically stable».
Mr Skobir noted that the airport is also working on attracting more carriers to operate on existing routes, in order to offer passengers more choice. «We are investing a lot of efforts in attracting new airlines to destinations already covered by one of the carriers. When Transavia introduced flights to Amsterdam, the existing Adria Airways service did not lose passengers. We attracted a completely different market and the number of passengers on this destination has more than doubled. As a domestic carrier in the Netherlands, Transavia is much more recognisable than Adria, which makes it easier to address this market. In addition, this route has opened a new window to the world for our travellers. Amsterdam Airport, as an important transport hub, provides many intercontinental flights mainly to America and Africa», Mr Skobir said. This winter, Aeroflot will introduce a daily service from Moscow to Ljubljana, competing against Adria Airways on the route.
Despite being in close proximately to a number of larger airports, the one in Ljubljana has seen its passenger numbers grow over 9% during the first three quarters of 2018. «There are six major airports in the region. We have strong competition in Zagreb, Venice and Treviso. However, in the last two years, we have recorded greater growth than all of the surrounding airports. We had a difficult period between 2009 and 2012. At the time, figures at Ljubljana Airport declined mainly due to Adria’s restructuring. The national carrier discontinued a third of its flights, which resulted in a big passenger decline for us. It then took three or four years for us to get to the same volume of traffic as before. Today, Adria is stable and contributes almost 60% of all passengers at our airport», Mr Skobir said. He added, «I think that we are successfully fighting for our share in the market, and we are also supported by the favourable economic climate in Slovenia and the increasing visibility of Slovenia as a tourist destination».
Ljubljana Airport’s planned new terminal

Work on the new 10.000 square metre terminal building is expected to begin early next year. It will feature a departures hall with 22 check-in counters, five security lanes, three baggage reclaim carousels, a new baggage sorting area, a large duty free shop, a new premium lounge, as well as new food and beverage facilities. The existing passenger terminal, which stretches over 13.000 square metres, will also be partially renovated. «Work is underway to obtain the necessary permits and by the end of the year a tender will be announced for the construction of the terminal, which will start next year. The facility will be completed in 2020. Furthermore, the development of the surrounding business zone has been enabled with the recent relocation of the road passing by the airport. We will start building internal road infrastructure in the near future, and we have already attracted some investors to build their facilities in the business zone. Negotiations are also underway with a large international chain for the construction of a hotel near the airport», Ljubljana Airport’s General Manager concluded.

Source: Ex Yu Aviation News