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Government Plans to Open Bidding for Liberia Airport Expansion

<br /> <style type="text/css">  </style> <div>The northwestern Guanacaste province’s tourism has outgrown its Daniel Oduber airport, and the government plans to offer private companies the chance to bid on a $15 million project to expand and improve it, the daily La Nación reported Sunday.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">Viviana Martín, Technical Council of the Civil Aviation Authority (CETAC) president, explained that businesses are invited to submit proposals for a project to construct a new building at the airport.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">CETAC hopes to have a 10,000-square-meter building with capacity for 1,500 passengers in place by mid-2009.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">When the airport was inaugurated in 2002, it received 56,000 passengers per year, but traffic has grown considerably — 355,500 tourists flew into Liberia last year, the daily reported.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">According to Martín, the new building will include a larger waiting area for passengers and space for more airlines, Customs, Immigration, boarding gates, stores and food vendors.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">President Oscar Arias has called the situation at Daniel Oduber “urgent” and remarked that opening up the expansion project to private companies is the best option.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">In the mean time, area hotels plan to build a temporary waiting area for passengers this year to relieve some of the airport’s congestion the until the new building is complete in 2009, according to La Nación.</p> <p style="text-align: left" dir="ltr">Modernization and expansion of Juan Santamaría International Airport, northwest of San José, is also being managed by a private company, Alterra Partners, but the contract has been fraught with problems since a Comptroller General’s Office report questioned Alterra’s plans for financing the airport in 2003. 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