Airport News
One of the biggest airport operators in Indonesia, Angkasa Pura II (AP II), has committed to invest IDR2 trillion ($150 million) for the construction of a new third runway at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
The airport operator has filed a land acquisition citation into the state budget and says it plans to start the construction process later this year.
The new runway will be 11,800 ft. long and will be able to cater for a wide range of widebody aircraft. It will also expand the chronically congested airport’s aircraft movements from the current 72 per hour to some 100 movements per hour.
Originally designed to handle 22 million passengers per year, Soekarno-Hatta currently handles more than 60 million passengers. Nearby Halim Perdanakusuma Airport has been re-opened to take up some of the overflow from carriers including Garuda Indonesia low-cost subsidiary Citilink.
APII CEO Budi Karya Sumadi said it will acquire land in the Tangerang area, allowing the new third runway to be completed by the end 2017.
This is expected to expand the airport’s capacity to 430,000 aircraft movements per year by 2018, and will also expedite the ongoing construction of a fourth runway planned for opening in 2024.
Separately, Indonesian aviation authorities are also looking to extend the runway at oil-and-gas hub Trunojoyo Airport at Sumenep, Madura Island.
Indonesian Transport Minister Ignatius Jonan has indicated that the Trunojoyo runway should be upgraded and extended to 5,300 ft. to cater for scheduled turboprop aircraft, such as ATR 72s, flying from Surabaya.
“If the land [can be acquired] the [Indonesian] Ministry of Transportation will prepare the budget for its development,” he said.
