Sharjah Airport Completes $11m Expansion, Overhaul Project
- Facility aims to raise airport’s capacity to reach 20 million passengers by 2025
The Sharjah Airport Authority (SAA) has cut the ribbon on the East Expansion project, which extends over an area of 4,000 square meters and includes new passenger, duty free, F&B and security facilities.
The project cost 40 million dirhams ($11m) and will raise the airport’s capacity from around 13 million to 20 million passengers a year by 2025.
In addition to new services and additions, a number of the airport’s current facilities have also been renovated and modernised.
“The completion of the East Expansion Project represents a qualitative addition within the comprehensive expansion plan to enhance the position of the Emirate of Sharjah on the global travel map,” said Ali Salim Al Midfa, chairman of the Sharjah Airport Authority.
“The East Expansion project will contribute to making the aspirations of the aviation sector and sustainable development a reality on the ground, by increasing the capacity and flow of movement, adopting the finest technologies and systems to enhance cooperation with strategic partners and airlines, and meeting customer expectations, ensuring their trip through Sharjah Airport is a distinctive experience.”
New Sharjah Airport
The East Expansion project, is an integrated building that includes four new gates and two floors equipped with new travel technologies and facilities to aid the “comfort and happiness of travelers”.
It includes food and beverage outlets, which are open 24 hours as well as a duty free shop. Other facilities include nine waiting areas, security scanning equipment and rooms and facilities for people with people with limited mobility.
Recently, a comprehensive renovation of the first and business class lounge, which is now called ‘The Lounge’, was completed to improve the service level. The room can accommodate more than 170 people.
Maintenance work was carried out on all airport facilities and this included redesigning the entrance to the arrivals building, renewing customer service counters and changing floors and lighting in the corridor leading to the departure gates in the passenger terminal and the adjacent areas.
Last year, before coronavirus struck, the airport achieved growth levels of 13% in the number of passengers processed, bringing 13.6 million passengers to the airport.
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