Seoul’s Incheon International airport held a groundbreaking ceremony on 26 September to mark the start of construction of its second terminal.
The new terminal is part of a won (W) 4.9 trillion ($4.55 billion) third-phase wave of construction work, that also includes building a new network of roads and a second transportation centre for the airport.
Incheon airport says that the additional terminal will help to raise capacity at the airport from 44 million passengers to 62 million when it opens in 2017. At that point, it is expected that the existing terminal and aprons will have reached their saturation point.
Flightglobal Pro data shows that last year the airport handled 39 million passengers, an increase of 11%, while total aircraft movements increased by 10% to 257,000.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
