New Malaga Airport terminal ready in time for Easter
Thursday, August 6, 2009 @ 2:50 PM
THE Public Works Secretary, Concepcion Gutierrez, has announced that the new terminal at Malaga Airport will be ready for Easter next year, which falls at the end of March. Construction of the infrastructure is expected to be finished by the end of this year.
Gutierrez revealed the news during a visit to the site along with the Junta de Andalucia’s Tourism Delegate and the president of the Spanish Airports Authority (AENA), Juan Ignacio Lema. Gutierrez described the new terminal as ‘spectacular’.
“With this expansion, the airport almost trebles its capacity and places itself in line with other European airports,” she told journalists. The secretary also described Malaga Airport as the airport with the highest priority after Madrid’s Barajas Airport and Barcelona’s El Prat.
Lema explained that Malaga Airport will be ideally placed for airlines to use for key connections to and from within Europe. Ironically, this comes at a time when Delta Airlines plans to withdraw its Malaga-New York service just over a year since it started. Malaga Town Hall plans to formally request that the airline maintains its intercontinental service, presumably by offering them some form of financial incentive.
With the completion of the new terminal, the airport will be capable of handling 9,000 passengers an hour and 30 million passengers a year. Public and private connections to and from the airport will also be enhanced, including a two-way underground local train station, and future plans for a high- speed AVE connection.
The new and enlarged Malaga Airport is expected to generate up to 150,000 direct and indirect jobs. One must also remember that if the airport is successful in attracting new direct international routes, it may well open up fresh tourist markets for the Costa del Sol.
Source: Euro Weekly News