The 36-year-old Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport is to begin a new chapter in its history after the renovation of its two runways is fully completed in January next year.
The overhaul of the 3,360m northern runway is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 8, airport authorities said.
Work to renovate the 3,350m southern runway was finished in January, allowing the airport to use its full capacity to complete the overhaul of the second runway.
Since the new southern runway was reopened in January, it has been operating smoothly and fully satisfies the requirements for takeoffs and landings of A380 superjumbo jets, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Co said yesterday.
The runway overhauls began in February last year, with the renovation involving digging up and repaving the runway to lay underground cables to upgrade the airport’s navigation system, the company said.
Following the inauguration of the overhauled southern runway, 89.3 percent of takeoffs and landings at the airport — which handles more than 600 flights per day — were made on schedule between January and last month, the airport said.
When there are delays, the main factors contributing to them are unfavorable weather and poor flow controls put into practice by neighboring airports, it added.
More than 35 million travelers came through the airport last year, an increase of 11.4 percent from 2013, which the company said was the biggest growth in Asia over the year.
Taoyuan airport ranked as the fifth-best airport in Asia by the Guide to Sleeping in Airports Web site, 10th in Skytrax’s rankings of best airports in Asia and 18th in Skytrax’s rankings of best airports in the world.
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