Singapore’s Changi Airport is starting master-planning work for a proposed Terminal 4, just months after opening Terminal 3 which significantly increased the airport’s passenger handling capacity.
Minister of state for transport Lim Hwee Hua told Singapore’s Parliament that “to continue to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to accommodate growth in the aviation market, the master-planning for Terminal 4 has started”.
No other details were provided, such as when the new terminal may be built or how big it may be.
Changi Airport currently has three main passenger terminals in addition to a low-cost carrier terminal, called the Budget Terminal, which the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore is preparing to expand.
Of the three main passenger terminals, the newest, Terminal 3, opened for commercial operations early in January. It was built at a cost of around S$1.75 billion ($1.2 billion) and is able to handle around 22 million passengers per year, lifting the airport’s total to around 70 million. In 2007 Changi handled 36.7 million passengers.
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