NEW TERMINAL AT KEMPEGOWDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

The first phase of Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) is scheduled to be commissioned in 2021. In the beginning of the current year, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), the company that operates KIA, the first Greenfield Airport in India to be built as a public-private partnership, gave out details of a 13,000 crore capital development programme. This includes a new 2,55,000 sq metres terminal building, second runway, expansion to the access roads and internal road infrastructure, utilities and a new multi-modal transport hub. The new and existing terminals will be separate and all international flights will be hosted by Terminal 2. The new terminal will have a capacity to handle more than 45 million passengers annually. In the financial year 2018-19, KIA handled 33.3 million passengers, an increase of 23.8 per cent year-on-year. Domestic traffic which is the main growth driver, accounted for 28.82 million passengers, while international traffic grew 17.5 per cent to 4.48 million. Kenneth Rosvang Guldbjerg, Chief Commercial Officer said, “The new facility will be an integrated domestic and international terminal with commercial space of around 22,000 sq metres in Phase One. This will grow to 40,000 sq metres in Phase Two. “