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Kuala Namu International Airport |
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Kuala Namu International Airport is a new airport under construction
to replace Polonia International Airport,
inappropriately located in the centre of Medan City and with
a difficult takeoff path and short runway. Construction began
on 29th June 2006, shortly before the first anniversary of
the crash of Mandala Airlines Flight 091. The airport is due
for completion in 2009, and it will serve the city of Medan
on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The airport will cost
at least 4.4 trillion Rupiahs to build or approximately US$
473 million, using the August 3rd, 2007 exchange rate.
Construction had previously been promised,
initially in 1992, following previous crashes and safety concerns
(construction was shelved following the Asian monetary crisis),
but the airport looks like it will now go ahead. The plan
is described in, whereby the airport would be located 20 km
North East of Polonia airport, 3 km from the sea and on a
site of area 6.5 x 2.1 km. The new airport will offer greater
safety and capacity, with a Phase 1 (2010), first year of
operation plan for 6.4 million passengers, of which 5.1 million
would be domestic, 1.2 million international and 0.14 million
international transit passengers. By Phase 2 (2025), the airport
would be servicing 14 million passengers, 2.5 million international
and 0.63 million international transit passengers.
The airport will be Indonesia's second largest,
following Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport and will eventually
have capacity of 50 million passengers, a figure if realised
today would place the airport in the top 10 busiest by passenger
numbers in the world, although by the time this figure is
ever achieved it is likely that there will be many airports
carrying more passengers.
Airside facilities would be controlled by
the Indonesian government, while landside facilities would
be owned by a joint venture (with PT Angakasa Pura II) company,
which is expected to provide US$ 350 million initial investment,
in return for a 30-year lease, after which ownership would
revert to PT Angkasa Pura II. The airport will be linked to
the city of Medan by a US$ 215 million railway project.
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