English
Administrator estimates that traffic capacity will increase by 20%
Terminal opened two meeting rooms and two passenger boarding bridges
The Juan Santamaria International Airport on Tuesday released two rooms and two passenger boarding bridges which will increase by 20% the annual traffic capacity of the terminal.
The new infrastructure is made for wide-body aircraft. This type of aircraft fuselages have diameters of up to six meters, it has two aisles and has more than 300 passenger capacity.
Additionally, rooms were enlarged F block approach and new business premises built in that area.
Improvements had cost $ 19 million and covering 3,758 square meters of construction.
With the two new boarding gates, the airport was 16 and preparing to build other on the west side of the property, next year.
"Here we are taking a 20%, representing between incoming and outgoing passengers, 800,000 passengers farther, about a year," explained Rafael Mencia, CEO of Aeris, concessionaire of Santamaria.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), the previous year, the terminal had a traffic of 3.8 million people. In 2013, the airport served 3.7 million passengers.
"We can already serve wide body aircraft such as Iberia, when parked, take up too much space," said Mencia.
This investment is in addition to improvements inaugurated last April. In that month new stores were opened and the main corridor for passengers was also expanded.
Other changes. Carlos Segnini, Minister of Public Works and Transport, said that in coming months a new hangar for Coopesa, worth $ 39 million to build.
Mencia said also enlist the transfer of the headquarters Fire south side of the terminal, in order to use that space for new facilities.
