SINGAPORE. Changi Airport is to close its Budget Terminal on 25 September this year, with work set to begin on an ambitious new Terminal 4. The new terminal, which is scheduled to open in 2017, will offer a range of big commercial opportunities, with Changi Airport Group (CAG) pledging “a wide choice of retail and food & beverage offerings as well as passenger amenities that will better serve the needs of travellers.”
The new terminal will have a capacity of 16 million passengers per year. It will be designed to enable efficient passenger processing and quick turnaround of aircraft, and will not have aerobridges.
Currently the Budget Terminal caters to low-cost traffic from Berjaya Air, Cebu Pacific, Firefly, South East Asian Airlines and Tiger Airways. These will move to Terminal 2 in September.
The existing Budget Terminal handled more than 4.6 million passenger movements in 2011. The airport company said: “While Changi Airport, with a total capacity of more than 70 million passengers per annum, still has room to accommodate air traffic growth, CAG believes in planning ahead to ensure there is capacity to handle further increase in traffic demand.”
Over the past decade, passenger traffic at Changi Airport has increased at a compound annual growth rate of +5.2%. In 2011, Changi handled a total of 46.5 million passenger movements, a year-on-year increase of +10.7%. Singapore-based carriers – Singapore Airlines, SilkAir, Tiger Airways, Jetstar Asia and Scoot – have ordered new aircraft and foreign carriers are also planning to grow their air links with Singapore, said CAG.
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Changi Airport’s Budget Terminal will be demolished to make way for the construction of Terminal 4, which will have a capacity of 16 million passengers per year |
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