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Aeris will invest some $18 million and expects to finish the works in less than 12 months
Civil Aviation approved construction of two boarding rooms and its bridges
The sound of drills and cement mixers will be to listen Juan Santamaría, in Alajuela in the facilities of the airport, later in November. This was confirmed by Civil Aviation, which gave him the go-ahead to Aeris – Manager of the terminal – to activate the process of construction of two rooms of approach, with its contact bridges, for larger aircraft. The facilities will be able to allow the passage of 260,000 passengers per year and will increase by 18% capacity of the approach to the terminal boards. Currently, the airport has nine bridges for passenger access to aircraft. Vilma López, Deputy Director of Civil Aviation, said that Aeris will build on the East side of the terminal, where today there are lightweight structures. The work will be on the opposite side of Coopesa, so it will not be necessary to remove that company until 2019. The new rooms will be referred to as block G from the airport, close to where today stands the aircraft of the Spanish airline Iberia. According to Lopez, the extension works are covered in the Master Plan of the terminal, which must be approved prior by the technical Council of Civil Aviation (CTAC). "The most of the land for two bridges will be used. In these rooms they would begin work in November and it would be a year of construction,"said Lopez. The new rooms of Juan Santamaría airport approach would be similar to the F block that already exists. | J. ARCE. expand More than rooms. Rafael Mencia, director of Aeris, said that the construction will include 1,000 meters for retail space, in addition to the two large boarding facilities, as well as an operations center. "These new rooms of approach should facilitate the exit of some 260,000 annual passengers in a comfortable and safe way. "The boarding bridges will also receive some 260,000 passengers arriving in Costa Rica, channeling them to the sterile corridors built last year," Mencia said. According to the official, the next month would begin the bidding process to award works and follow the schedule, they will begin to build in November. The cost of the works is around $18 million. The bridges will be the feature that allow the arrival of aeroplanes with code E – up to 65 meters in wingspan and aircraft code C – up to 36 meters in wingspan, simultaneously. "According to studies, will receive the benefit air carriers and passengers who arrive and depart from the country, since the airport increases your capacity to receive aircraft in bridges of contact for the disembarkation of passengers; also the capacity of waiting rooms where to accommodate passengers who leave the country", said Mencia. The most recent data indicate that the screening of passengers who pass this year through the airport Juan Santamaría, the largest terminal in the country, is 3.668.000, including transshipment and in-transit passengers.
