Ahead of IMF-WB Meeting, Bali Airport Continues to Improve

INDUSTRY.co.id - Denpasar - PT Angkasa Pura I I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, is optimistic that infrastructure development at the local airport will be completed by the end of August 2018 before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings.

"We hope that the end of August 2018 there is already a form so that September can be evaluated and certified to be used," said General Manager of PT Angkasa Pura I I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport Yanus Suprayogi after closing the integrated post of Eid 2018  monitoring transport in Denpasar, Monday / 6/2018)

According to Yanus, his party is speeding up some project work, one of which is the thickening of the runway layer which is done from 02.00 to 07.00 WITA and is targeted to be completed by September 2018.

Thus, he continued, the runway could be utilized for 24 hours to accommodate the high air traffic that brought the world's delegates to Bali.

In addition there are four major airport development projects that dikebut major work on the maturation of land in the western waters of the airport that will be used as an apron plane.

"The work is still 12 percent due to the approval of the new reclamation on May 18, 2018 we received," he said.

Meanwhile, for the construction of two packages, the construction of apron in the east of the airport, Yanus said, the execution even exceeded the target period reached 38 percent from the previous target of 36 percent although in parallel did the land transfer of waste management.

In addition to the addition of reporting outlets or "check-in counter" and the construction of the VIP building is still running before the grand meeting of financial and economic actors in October 2018.

"We are all fasten our seatbelt because this Bali should not be mediocre but extraordinary," said Yanus.

The airport operator noted the reporting booth at the international terminal was expanded from 96 units of 2,740 square meters to 126 units with an area of ​​4,420 square meters.

Then for the "rapid exit taxiway" into three of the two tracks and the addition of aircraft parking space to 63 from the current as much as 53 and the runway capacity is increased to 33 flights per hour which originally 30 flights.
 

The principle supports the development of airports but there is the concept of acceleration. That is what Minister Luhut emphasized in increasing the acceleration of infrastructure so that who want to Bali can be accommodated, "said Yanus.