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Economy in brief: New Yogyakarta airport ready in April
The new Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA), located in a coastal area of Kulon Progo regency, will start operating its international terminal in April
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span>The new Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA), located in a coastal area of Kulon Progo regency, will start operating its international terminal in April.
“We hope that international flights [currently] served by Adisutjipto International Airport will be relocated to NYIA in April,” state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I (AP I) general manager for Adisutjipto International Airport, Agus Pandu Purnama, said over the weekend in Yogyakarta.
He said the flights that would be relocated were direct flights to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. This is expected to reduce the burden of the old airport, which serves about 8.4 million passengers annually.
Construction of NYIA’s runway and 12,900-square-meter terminal was 69 percent complete, Agus said, adding that work was being done 24 hours a day to ensure the facilities would be ready in April.
Meanwhile, development of the entire 210,000 sqm airport, which required a total investment of Rp 6.1 trillion (US$432.64 million), was 35 percent complete and expected to be fully finished by December 2019, he added.
According to PT AP I, NYIA’s international terminal is equipped with four air bridges and parking facilities that are expected to accommodate 342 cars and seven buses.
