BAA still confident on airport expansion
11.05.09
BAA are confident that the proposed runway extension at Aberdeen Airport will go ahead, despite falling passenger numbers and the deepening recession, the Press & Journal reports. It is investing £10 million in an initial runway extension of 328 yards and an expanded international arrivals hall. The first phase of the redevelopment programme, which is currently under way, involves a bigger customs and immigration hall, improved baggage reclaim facilities, and work on the airport car park.
Over the next decade, BAA intends to spend £60 million on extending the runway further to allow bigger, more modern aircraft to fly from Aberdeen to destinations throughout the Mediterranean, North Africa and North America, as well as building a bigger, better-equipped terminal and new aircraft parking stands. However, the plans were developed before the recession, when BAA was predicting passenger numbers at Aberdeen would rise to 5.9 million by 2030.
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