Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) yesterday said it is seeking public input on designs for the airport’s third terminal, adding that the company would take the designs into consideration in discussions with its architectural team.
The new terminal forms a core feature of the Taoyuan Aerotropolis Project, and in terms of scale and funding would be the largest construction since the “10 Major Construction Projects” of the 1970s, TIAC senior vice president Wen Yung-sung (溫永松) said.
The project includes constructions of a third terminal, air bridges, a multifunctional building connecting Terminal Two and the new one, parking for aircraft, automatic people movers and access roads to the terminal.
The cost of the project is estimated to top NT$74 billion (US$2.36 billion), with about NT$48.8 billion to be spent on the planned terminal, he said.
The new terminal would be designed to accommodate 45 million passengers per year, Wen said.
Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2017 and be completed by 2020, he said.
TIAC data showed that passenger volume in the nation’s largest international airport reached 18.75 million in the first six months of the year, a 7.02 percent increase from the same period last year.
Cargo volume handled at the airport over the same period totaled 1.01 million tonnes, up 1.45 percent from a year earlier.
The airport company estimated that passenger traffic at the airport could reach 40 million this year, based on current growth rates.
However, this would exceed the combined capacity of terminals 1 and 2, which were designed to accommodate 32 million passengers.
Wen atrributed the growth to increased tourism to northeast Asian nations and four international airlines that began offering services at the airport this year — AirAsiaX in January, Jeju Air and Tigerair Philippines in February, and Turkish Airlines in March.
Direct flights to Istanbul and Houston, Texas, through Turkish Airlines and EVA Airways also started.
The airport can operate using only one runway, Wen said, adding that efficient management of flights was done by coordinating with the Civil Aeronautics Administration.
“On average, using a single runway adds about 15 to 20 minutes to a flight,” Wen said. “In isolated cases, the delay could top three hours, if airports across Taiwan start regulating traffic or there are extreme weather conditions.”
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