Global Airport News

The Japanese transport ministry said it has agreed with the operator of Haneda airport in Tokyo to expand its new international terminal to cope with an expected increase in flights, with hopes of putting the new facilities in service at the end of fiscal 2013.
Construction work, expected to start next year, will include increasing floor space by about 40 percent to accommodate more boarding gates and security check corners, expanding the tarmac, and constructing a new hotel near the terminal, according to the ministry and Tokyo International Air Terminal Corp.
Haneda airport, officially known as Tokyo International Airport, opened the new international terminal building along with a fourth runway last October when it resumed scheduled international flight services for the first time in 32 years.
The expansion would improve the airport's capacity to handle a planned increase in annual takeoff and landing slots for international flights, which the Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Tourism Ministry plans to boost to 90,000 from the current 60,000.