Car park demolition to mark beginning of redevelopment at Helsinki Airport
The project comes after years of steadily increasing traffic at Finland's busiest airport.
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The project comes after years of steadily increasing traffic at Finland's busiest airport.
The planned revamp will help Melbourne Airport reach its goal of reaching annual traffic of 100 million passenger over the coming decades.
Construction, expected to start this year, will support about 400 jobs and is due to be completed in spring 2022.
Councillor Nigel Ashton unveiled a plaque to mark the completion of the £9.5 million development which opened to customers earlier this summer.
The new terminal build means the airport has six times the capacity it did in 2015.
The work will be carried out progressively over the next 12 months.
The consortium was selected as the preferred bidder for the project on May 16, 2018.
The airport, which has been under construction for four years, is expected to open in October.
When the expansion project is completed in 2022, the airport terminal building will be more than double its existing size at 420,000 square feet.
The news of the CEO of Munich Airport's reappointment came as part of the joint ACI EUROPE-World Annual Assembly and Congress in Brussels.
The Governor's action marks a critical step towards the construction of a mass-transit link, which is expected to help reduce vehicular congestion and delays for passengers travelling to and from the airport.
Though the battle may have been won, murmurs of a legal challenge may yet stop the plan in its tracks.
The security zone is more than double the size of the previous area and can facilitate a greater number of passengers at one time.
The move would mark the first time that flights from Heathrow to regional airports have been safeguarded.
The total contract is valued at approximately 453 million CNY ($70 million US, 61 million euro) with the APM system scheduled to enter service in 2020.