RAK Airport entering next stage of expansion
The UAE’s most northern airport will award an expansion tender later this year.
Ras Al Khaimah International Airport is gearing up for its next stage of expansion as it bids to become the major hub for low cost carriers in the Middle East.
The UAE’s most northern emirate sees low cost as well as charter flights as a way to develop its own aviation sector in a region dominated by intercontinental hubs in Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi.
A tender will be awarded this year for the expansion of the airport that will help to increase its capacity to 3.5 million passengers a year up from 1.5 million currently, airport chief executive Mohammad Qazi told Gulf News on Monday.
A design consultancy has been drafted in to draw up the expansion plans that will include six new aircraft gates, increase the number of check-in counters by 70 per cent and expand the retail space by at least 40 per cent.
“There is a constant evolution up here,” Qazi said by phone following the launch of Air India Express services from the southern Indian city of Calicut on Monday. [ Click to Read Full Article ]
