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Bandaid Solution for Congested Terminal at Phuket Airport
13th Aug 2013
A 145-million baht budget was recently approved by the board of Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT) to build a temporary terminal as an immediate solution to the ongoing terminal problems at Phuket International Airport.
The airport is already undergoing a major expansion with the ongoing construction of a new terminal building scheduled to be completed in mid-2015. This will increase the present capacity of the airport's single terminal up to 12.5 million from 6.5 million passengers.
The AoT saw the need to put up a temporary terminal at Phuket International Airport following the projected growth of the airport's passenger traffic volume this year which is estimated to hit 10.5 million, well beyond the capacity of its present terminal.
The construction of the temporary terminal was awarded to Unique Engineering and Construction Plc who is tasked to finish the project in 120 days. It will be a single-level structure with a total floor area of 1,400 square meters, just enough to handle 3 million passengers annually when completed before the year ends.
Though temporary, the structure would be built primarily of glass and steel designed to harmonize the future terminal expansion of the airport. It will have 10 check-in counters and will be mainly used by international passengers on charter flights. Since it will also be situated far enough from the present terminal building, a bus transport system is already in place to ferry arriving passengers for security and immigration procedures.
The 5.8 billion-baht main terminal expansion project will be a multi-level structure designed to handle an annual capacity of 5 million passengers. Upon its completion, it will be used solely for international passengers while the present terminal will be mainly used for domestic travelers.
The AoT is also mulling to add a second runway at Phuket Airport to cope up with the projected increase in passenger traffic volume as soon as the Asean economic integration takes affect in 2015.
The airport General Manager, Pratuang Sonkham, this early, said that Phuket really needs another runway in 10-15 years. He further noted that the present growth of the passenger traffic will require the airport to have an expanded terminal capacity of another 10 million passengers annually by then.
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