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AIRPORTS

NEW ChANgI
TERMINAL

Weary travellers tired of the basic
facilities at Singapore Airport’s Changi
Budget Terminal (The Shed) will probably
welcome news that the Shed is to be
demolished to make way for a new 16
million ppa terminal, Terminal 4. A Changi
Airports Group (CAG) spokesperson said
the Budget Terminal will close on 25
September this year, and works would
take until 2017 to complete. Existing
carriers using the Budget Terminal
Berjaya Air, Cebu Pacific, Firefly, South BRANdENBURg RISES
will move to Terminal 2, and include
East Asian Airlines and Tiger Airways. There’s a new airport opening in Europe. The Berlin Brandenburg Airport (Flughafen
Between them, these carriers processed Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt) is to open in June, replacing Schönefeld, Tempelhof
over 4.5 million passenger movements and Tegel facilities. It will have an initial capacity of around 30–50 million ppa. Indications
last year, and the airport managers are are it will be the third busiest airport in Germany. “A new era dawns for the region
confident the new setup will handle what around the capital with the opening of the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport”, claimed
they see as increased demand. In 2011, airport boss, Prof. Dr. Rainer Schwarz. “Tourism is already booming in Berlin and
Changi handled more than 46 million Brandenburg. And I am certain that ... business in the region ... will benefit enormously
passengers, 10.7% up on 2010. from the new airport.”

VIETNAM AIRPORTS airports. However, sourcing finance is
an initial challenge, according to Nguyen
MERgE Cong Hoan, director of planning and
Vietnam is to institute a new Airports investment. “We are in need of financial
Corporation by merging its Northern, investments from many sources, domestic
Middle and Southern Airports and foreign,” he explained, as part of: “
Corporations. Named the Airports .. a developing strategy to compete with
Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) it will the neighboring airports in Thailand and
operate as a one-member State-owned Singapore,” he said. Vietnam also plans
limited company. The VND14.7 trillion to begin construction in 2015 of the US
(US$705 million) corporation will regulate $10 billion Long Thanh International
safety and security, and import and Airport outside the financial capital of Ho
export aviation equipment. The new body Chi Minh in the southern province of Dong
will initially focus on the completion of T2 Nai. The 5,000-hectare airport, to be built
Terminal at Ha Noi’s Noi Bai Airport and in three phases, is expected to become
terminals at Cam Ranh and Phu Quoc operational in 2020, with four runways.
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