MAROS - The area expansion process in Sultan Hasanuddin Airport will continue. With this expansion, the pride airport of the South Sulawesi people is predicted to be able to accommodate 25 million passengers per year until 2025. According to the President Director of Angkasa Pura Airports, Tommy Soetomo, Sultan Hasanuddin Airport 8 years ago was designed for 7.5 million passengers per year. However, over the turns with the existing building is now no longer able to accommodate passengers. Proven recent number of passengers using the airport services reached ten thousand people per day.
"The airport was designed 8 years ago to 7.5 million passengers., But for now the airport service users are able to reach 10 million people Why we re-design for the expansion of the airport area could reach up to 25 million passengers," he said on Monday (18 / 8/2014). He explained, in fact Angkasa Pura Airports will design the 50 million passenger movements per year. But for the first step will be approximately 25 million passenger movements. Due to design a wide area of the airport, it takes quite a long time.
"When designed to 50 million passengers it take a long time, can be up to 30 years to come. So our first step will be to build and expand the capacity of the airport to 25 million passengers," he said. For the initial step expansion of the airport, then Angkasa Pura Airports will conduct the study. Furthermore, should held presentation to the Governor, continued choosing of the location, then the land acquisition.
"The process is still long. Sometimes this land acquisition is difficult, because there are some people who want to budge but some are not. Yet again there is the issue of land ownership, which is not lawful," he explained. Share and Services Department Head Angkasa Pura Airports Branch Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport Makassar, Hary Budi Waluyo said, related to the expansion of the airport, the authority Angkasa Pura Airports Headquarters. As for Angkasa Pura Airports in Makassar branch only handle land acquisition.
Hary said, everything has been handled properly. Specifically for land acquisition stage I've dealt with BPN. While the second phase, includes Baddo-baddo still in the bidding process by BPN. "We target to be completed this year, so that the process can be carried out in 2015-2017 airports," he explained. [Pardika Dewi RS / Source: Sindonews.com]
