Macau To Start Airport Expansion In 2007
Written on December 7, 2006 by admin
This is going to be crucial to the success of the Cotai Strip, Macau so far has received over 20 million visitors this year. It is expected that this will double by the end of 2010, so that is 40 million visitors of which more than 25% are set to arrive by air. And I think it will be more than that as the Cotai Strip will get most of its visitors from outside Asia that will be attending conferences and exhibitions.
I think that Sheldon Adelson is already concerned about Macau’s airport capacity and therefore is pushing to operate ferries to Hong Kong Airport. Macau’s infrastructure expansion will be crucial to its success with the casino’s and tourism.
The government of Macau plans to move ahead in 2007 with work to expand the local international airport, which this year is expected to have traffic of 5 million passengers, close to the 6 million for which it was designed, officials said.
Speaking Tuesday to journalists, the secretary of state for Transport and Public Works, Ao Man Long, said that the expansion of the aircraft parking area was being considered as this is the priority for responding to increased traffic at Macau airport.
The area between the runway and the aircraft parking bay will be filled in order to create more parking areas and making room for the increased number of private flights using Macau’s airport.
As well as structural work on the airport, the Government will also build a new car and tourist bus park.
Macau’s International airport was built during the territory’s Portuguese administration and opened on December 8, 1995.
Courtesy | MacauHub
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