Bangladesh plans expansion of main international airport.

[Homo Sapiens]

Bangladesh plans expansion of main international airport

June 12th, 2017 at 12:30 pm

Dhaka – Bangladesh has taken up scheme to expand its main international airport in Dhaka to handle the ever-increasing pressure of passengers and cargo through Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, officials said.

As part of the improvement plan, the government approved a plan to build yet another terminal of the airport with an estimated cost of Tk 13,610 crore.

Japan International Cooperation Agency will finance the project. The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh and construction consultants signed an agreement for the plan on Sunday.

According to the work-plan, the construction of the new terminal, to be called Terminal-3, will begin in April 2018 to run up to 2021. The airport has two terminals to handle international passengers and cargo.


Once the project is completed, passenger handling capacity of the airport will increase to 20 million from the existing 8 million per year. The cargo handling capacity will increase to 500,000 tonnes instead of 200,000 tonnes now.

Rashed Khan Menon, minister for civil aviation and tourism, who was present at the agreement signing said the project was taken considering the numbers of passengers using the HSIA is getting higher every day.

Heavy flow of freight has already exceeded the cargo handling capacity of the airport, he said adding that the trend of passengers flow will cross the Dhaka’s handling capacity by 2018.

“The government has taken into consideration the two factors to decide expansion of the airport,” he said.

CAAB Chairman Air Vice Marshal Ehsanul Ghoni Chowdhury and Vice Charmin of Japan based Nippon Co Ltd Haruhiko Kanai, Vice Charmin of Japanese Oriental Consultants Ltd Jun Yamauchi, Executive Vice President of Singaporean CPG Consultant ltd Rohani Binte Baharin and AKM Rafiquddin of Bangladesh Development Design Consultant inked the agreement on behalf of their respective sides.

Bangladesh has been mulling for another airport, which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier said, will consider as a junction for the world’s East and the West. But the site for such a big airport was not yet completed.

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[Homo Sapiens]

If they are determined to build Bangabandhu airport then why wasting so much money in existing airport? Personally I think govt. should scrap the new airport project and try to capitalize the existing Shahjalal airport.I have read that, 60 percent of land of Shah jalal airport is still left unused. If British can run LHR and American can run JFK within dense city than why not BD? Those two vast airport are running for 100 years,without any need to relocate while need/capacity increased 100 folds.

 

[bluesky]

Bangladesh plans expansion of main international airport

June 12th, 2017 at 12:30 pm

The news did not say anything specific about the proposed additional 3rd runway. As far as I remember there was (is) a small runway at the west of the present airport, which has been used by the BAF. This short runway can be extended north and south with the demolition of a few houses. I think, the govt will demolish this small runway and construct a new one that will be long enough to accommodate larger planes.

Since this is my wild imagination, so, I ask others to contribute on the 3rd runway. However, I think, the entire Terminal building blocks should be moved and rebuilt with a new one with modern facilities. For the main entry point to a country, the parking spaces look also shoddy and very poor. Only good thing I find is, the airport is on a higher ground. I hope, the authorities will give consideration to all other points while constructing the 3rd runway.

 

[Bombaywalla]

Thank heavens! The current airport terminal in Dhaka is pretty darn disgusting, and the lounge is at best, laughable.

 

[Jayhawk]

Thank heavens! The current airport terminal in Dhaka is pretty darn disgusting, and the lounge is at best, laughable.

What he said...

 

[bdslph]

If they are determined to build Bangabandhu airport then why wasting so much money in existing airport? Personally I think govt. should scrap the new airport project and try to capitalize the existing Shahjalal airport.I have read that, 60 percent of land of Shah jalal airport is still left unused. If British can run LHR and American can run JFK within dense city than why not BD? Those two vast airport are running for 100 years,without any need to relocate while need/capacity increased 100 folds.

because they can BAL name the new airport B . S . M. R that is all its all about NAME
it all about excuses you can make millions of them
the existing can even have a new terminal and new not one runway more runways its more then enough for BD

in Philippines planes are 4 terminal one more might be build but but the whole airport is the same one
every 1 to 2 minutes plane lands and take off domestic and international its so busy

so for BD the one is more then enough

 

[bluesky]

If British can run LHR and American can run JFK within dense city than why not BD?

Fly to Hongkong to see how the planes go up and come down among all those high-rise buildings. The planes go up almost vertical because of fear of hitting the buildings in front. But, here in Dhaka all the political people in the govt make so many excuses to get foreign promise/assistance for a new airport. It is shameful because if BD really needs a new fancy airport, instead of begging here and there, it should build it with its own money. However, Dhaka airport remains under-utilized.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Fly to Hongkong to see how the planes go up and come down among all those high-rise buildings. The planes go up almost vertical because of fear of hitting the buildings in front.

Yes, that was Kai Tak Airport. With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, landings at the airport were dramatic to experience and technically demanding for pilots. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranked it as the 6th most dangerous airport in the world.

Hong Kong has moved the airport built on an artificial island in Chek Lap Kok since 1998, replacing the 63 years old Kai Tak Airport. Hong Kong International Airport and Asia World Expo

Built by China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC), including the 3,080-acre artificial island that the airport is built on. The project is the most expensive airport project ever, according to Guinness World Records, and was voted as one of the Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th Century at the ConExpo conference in 1999.

The other mega scale airport built on artificial island is Kansai International Airport, in Osaka, Japan.

 

[bluesky]

I think, the AL govt's plan to build a new airport 200 km away from Dhaka and on the other side of Padma Bridge is the most stupid imagination a govt can have when the present airport in Dhaka remains underused. BD does not need and certainly cannot afford a new airport with a $7 billion price tag.

It is SHW's personal wish and the there is no possibility the country will be benefited in anyway except that the burden of foreign loan will be a staggering one. This is why no lending agency or country came forward to appease SHW's silly and impractical project. এ ধরণের গাধাকর্মকেই বলা হয় , "ভিক্ষা করে ঘি ভাত খাওয়া" !

It is good to see JICA has come forward with this novel plan of adding new runway in the present airport. I have my personal endorsement to this new plan. With a lot of experience of this kind of job Japan is certainly in a position to guide the blind govt of BD and its talkative leader. Japan is still expanding its Haneda airport for the last 20 years, probably.

 

[Bilal9]

Thank heavens! The current airport terminal in Dhaka is pretty darn disgusting, and the lounge is at best, laughable.

Well Thanks for the fellow feeling but the same thing (disgusting and laughable) and can be said about your hometown airport too.

We are very much looking forward to a slum-free Mumbai airport.

 

[Bombaywalla]

Well Thanks for the fellow feeling but the same thing (disgusting and laughable) and can be said about your hometown airport too.

We are very much looking forward to a slum-free Mumbai airport.

Oooh looks like the toddler in you got butt hurt (as usual) for no real reason. My comment on DAC, the topic of this thread, was made from personal experience unfortunately; only an absolute joke of a person (a highly uninformed one at that) would talk about Bombay airport in the same vein as Dhaka's. What a complete noob.

Despite crippling constraints, Bombay airport has managed to bag the top awards from skytrax and others.

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From a trip report...

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[Bilal9]

Oooh looks like the toddler in you got butt hurt (as usual). My comment on DAC, the topic of this thread, was made from personal experience unfortunately; only an absolute joke of a person (a highly uninformed one at that) would talk about Bombay airport in the same vein as Dhaka's. What a complete noob.

Despite crippling constraints, Bombay airport has managed to bad the top awards from skytrax and others.

Yeah the inside can look like this - but the outside still looks like a toilet (literally).

Now who are you trying to impress showing images of Mumbai airport lounge? It may impress Indians (and some other Asians) but not those of us who've lived overseas for most our lives.....any traveler landing in Mumbai will see the slums anyway......

 

[Bombaywalla]

Yeah the inside can look like this - but the outside still looks like a toilet (literally).

Aww it's cute how hard you try, plus, sticking to the subject (and general overall discipline) is something you clearly lack in.

Now who are you trying to impress showing images of Mumbai airport lounge? It may impress Indians (and some other Asians) but not those of us who've lived overseas for most our lives.....any traveler landing in Mumbai will see the slums anyway......

Hah! Nobody's trying to impress you, a bangladeshi. The whole world (including skytrax) seems to be impressed by T2, so never mind what you think. I shudder to think what your state of mind is going to be once Bombay's new airport (NMIA) opens.

Burn away!

 

[bluesky]

Well Thanks for the fellow feeling but the same thing (disgusting and laughable) and can be said about your hometown airport too.

We are very much looking forward to a slum-free Mumbai airport.

Thank you for showing us the true Bombay and India. But, why the Indians systematically claim that 200 million BD citizens are loitering in their wonderland, India. I wonder where do they live? Are these Bombay slums full of Bangladeshis? Now, I know why Indians claim that each of their houses has one guard man and one maid servant, who hailed from BD.

 

[Bombaywalla]

Are these Bombay slums full of Bangladeshis? Now, I know why Indians claim that each of their houses has one guard man and one maid servant, who hailed from BD.

Yes, many of them are.