18 May 2013
JEDDAH -- Chairman of the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) Prince Fahd Bin Abdullah Bin Muhammad, has signed a contract to develop a fifth terminal for King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) in Riyadh. The consortium that will implement the project include Turkish firm Taf and Kingdom-based Al-Arrab Company, which won the contract for designing, executing and building the terminal at a total cost of SR260 million. In a statement issued on Friday, GACA said the terminal will be built on an area of 100,000 square meters with a capacity of 12 million passengers annually. It will be allocated for domestic flights.
Following completion of the first stage of the project in 2017, the capacity of the airport will reach 35.5 million passengers annually.
JEDDAH -- Chairman of the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) Prince Fahd Bin Abdullah Bin Muhammad, has signed a contract to develop a fifth terminal for King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) in Riyadh. The consortium that will implement the project include Turkish firm Taf and Kingdom-based Al-Arrab Company, which won the contract for designing, executing and building the terminal at a total cost of SR260 million. In a statement issued on Friday, GACA said the terminal will be built on an area of 100,000 square meters with a capacity of 12 million passengers annually. It will be allocated for domestic flights.
Following completion of the first stage of the project in 2017, the capacity of the airport will reach 35.5 million passengers annually.
© The Saudi Gazette 2013
