New Kuwait airport terminal to commence operations

01 May 2018
South Korea’s Incheon International Airport Corporation to operate and maintain Terminal 4

Kuwait International airport’s Terminal 4 (T4) is expected to enter full operations in the third quarter of the year following the appointment in April of South Korea’s Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) to operate and maintain the terminal.

The $127.6m contract covers a five-year period and expires in 2023.

MEED understands T4, which can handle up to 4.5 million passengers annually, will cater exclusively to national carrier Kuwait Airways.

T4 was built for $174m by a team comprising Turkey’s Cengiz Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret and the local firm First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Company. It was originally designed as a temporary facility to absorb excess passenger traffic from the old terminal while the $4.3bn Terminal 2 is undergoing construction.

A new terminal dedicated to low-cost carrier Jazeera Airways is also expected to become operational next month. The terminal can handle up to 1.2 million passengers a year.

Kuwait International airport handled 13.7 million passengers in 2017, an increase of 17 per cent compared with 2016, and nearly three times the capacity of its existing main terminal.

 

 

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