Malaga Airport's New Car Park To Be Started in September
News date: Friday, 09th of July, 2004
The scheme includes an underground coach station and service roads in preparation for the new passenger terminal
A date has now been set for further remodelling and extension work at Malaga Airport. In September, with a budget of 71,68 million euros, the company Necso Entrecanales S.A. will be starting construction work that will continue over a period of two and a half years. The main item in this scheme will be a new covered car park for 1,800 vehicles. Other pieces of work include the creation of provisional service roads to keep traffic flowing and an underground coach station.
New terminal
The new car park will be situated to the south of the present one and will cover a surface area of 51,000 square metres on five floors. Space will also be freed for the construction of the new passenger terminal; at the same time, the multi-storey car park will meet the need for more parking spaces.
Another of the measures aimed at gaining more space will be the creation of an underground coach station to replace the present one. This will cover around 29,000 square metres and will initially have a capacity for 66 coaches, but will eventually, in a second phase, be extended to provide parking space for 90 coaches.
The third main item in the new scheme will be the introduction of provisional service roads in order to keep the traffic flowing along the main roads at the airport. This will help resolve the problem of access to the new terminal, when it is built, to the northern part of the airport and to the link to the future road in this area.
Once all this building work has been completed everything necessary will be in place for the creation of the new passenger terminal, although the contract for it has still not been put out to tender. The Pablo Ruiz Picasso Terminal, completed in 1992, is already too small to cope with all the passengers arriving and departing through it. Since the inauguration of the new control tower everything else needed at the airport has been met with makeshift measures such as the setting up of check-in counters near the technical block.
The following important step will be the creation of a second runway as the lack of space is also affecting the apron taxiway. But all this work, which originally had a completion date of 2007, is not likely to be finished now until 2013.
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