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~ 27/06/06
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.
CETAC hopes to have a 10,000-square-meter building with capacity for 1,500 passengers in place by mid-2009.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. International banks suspended $30 million in loans pending the resolution of the conflict.
- ACAN-EFE and Tico Times
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