On Monday (12.03.2018) the Government announced an investment of $15.000 billion for the remodeling and expansion of the Ezeiza International Airport, where new positions will be added for the operation of aircraft and services will be increased for the 10 million passengers who pass through that terminal annually.
“The works, which we are already carrying out together with Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, will enable Ezeiza to have for the first time a single terminal with all its sectors integrated, and its original terminals A, B and C will no longer operate separately. There will now be a single departures building and a single arrivals building,” explained the Minister of Transport, Guillermo Dietrich.
The official said that the works are part of the Aircraft Revolution Plan that the national government is carrying out in 29 airports throughout the country, providing the necessary infrastructure to the commercial aviation sector to sustain the growth that Aerolíneas Argentinas is experiencing and the arrival, for the first time in 12 years, of new airlines to operate in the country.
At the meeting, the head of the National Airport System Regulatory Body (ORSNA), Patricio Destéfano, explained that the work being carried out at Ezeiza will increase the current size of the airport by four times, going from the current 58.400 square meters to the projected 217.230 square meters.
The works will allow the boarding gates to almost double, from the current 27 to 52, new check-in counters will be added and the self-check-in machines will be quadrupled.
In addition, there will be a large customs control room with 14 scanners and 19 stations.
There will also be five new baggage carousels, a 53% increase in the number of garages, especially covered ones, which will increase from 342 to 1.835, and there will be four times as many aircraft positions, which will increase the airport's operational capacity.
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