Changi Airport Group (CAG) budget terminal to close
BreakingTravelNews: 'The terminal to be named as terminal 4, and will have the capacity of approximately 16 million passengers annually. The terminal is to be designed to enable the efficient passenger processing, with no aerobridges'
Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announces that they will close the Singapore Changi Airport’s budget terminal in the month of September 2012. The terminal demolishes to make the way for the construction for the larger passenger building to continue the air traffic growth at Changi airport and also to strengthen the air hub status.
The terminal to be named as terminal 4, and will have the capacity of approximately 16 million passengers annually. The terminal is to be designed to enable the efficient passenger processing, with no aerobridges.
The new terminal 4 would have the wide retail choice, food varieties, beverage offerings, and passenger amenities, which will serve the better needs to all the passengers. To make the terminal 4 effective, the airlines currently operates in the budget terminals, to move the operations to terminal 2. The terminal 4 operation will be effective from September 2012.
Berjaya Air, Cebu Pacific, Firefly, South East Asian Airlines, and Tiger Airways are the affected airlines. Currently, the existing budget terminal has the capacity of the passenger movements of around 4.6 millions. Changi Airport has the total capacity of 70 million passengers per annum, and still has the accommodation for the growth of air traffic.
Over the past decade, the passenger traffic in the airport has increased up to 5.2 percent, annually. During the past year 2011, the Changi airport managed to handle around 46.5 million passengers traffic, which is around 10.7 percent increase when compared to the previous year.
The new terminal 4 will have better improvements, and the construction of terminal 4 is expected to start in the year 2013. The new terminal will get ready by 2017.
