Coming there next week...guess nothing has improved...its not that bad, its a very clean and neat airport but cannot cope with the traffic. Needs a new terminal ASAP

No offence but it also looks quite outdated compared to the new airports cropping up in India and the Maldives. They need to benchmark themselves against these new airports. Problem is that this design was probably created a while back before these new airports cropped up.

In the current BIA terminal, the floor tiles dont even match. The new section is marble whereas the old section just looks old. The Arrival duty free shops need a makeover as well. More food options like KFC should be introduced. Even better if they introduced a Lankan chain like Perera and Sons into the terminal. That way home grown brands will have some international exposure.

Honestly though I probably wouldve just created a new airport from scratch. BIA has no where to grow.

Any sign when this terminal-contruction going to start ?

Dont know about new terminal. But there is A litle big construction going on expanding the departure and arrival roads

Thats for the expressway

Was checking out Bangkok's airport and how impressive it is and in the process you get to see one of our Birds also present

The BIA land "plot" does have space for expansion.

The only problem is the position of various structures.

Building a new terminal "south" of the current terminal means destroying the cargo terminal and viewing gallery.

On the other hand there is plenty of space "north" of the terminal, but that means removing the fire station & UL hanger (maybe have all MRO operatios done at Hamba?). Further "north" there is plenty more space, but to build a new terminal there would require flattening the land to make it even and re-positioning the radar.

The options are thus to either re-locate said structures first (around the BIA land plot), or downgrade/remove the Air Base.

Personally i believe it's time to shift the Air Base entirely, and have a more a "ceremonial" base in place (as it is a important historic base/landmark regarding the war etc). This in turn gives CMB plenty of space to grow nicely as a hub.

SLAF operations at Katunakaye could be transferred to SLAF Iranamadu (which would require upgrading that runway and the facilities at that location). It's a win win: CMB gets much needed space to expand properly with a right plan, while the SLAF will get brand spanking new equipment and facilities at a new location, with a purpose built modern base.

Will cost a bundle though.

All this requires a lot of foresight, hard thinking and long term planning, which our people are not up to -especially the crop of TPTB who are entirely morons and DUDs.

Nice info, thanks for the analysis! But where would a 2nd runway go? Would they would have to acquire a lot of land for such a purpose?

Anyway looks like the tender for the construction of T2 is out on the AASL website (with a closing date in December). As a result dont expect construction to start until half way through next year (at least).

LINK: http://www.airport.lk/tenders/tender0052-T-2012.php

Hi,
I am interesting to know about the new Mattala International Airport?
Does any one has much more details about that?

If you go through it (only 7 pages so nothing to excessive) you'll find plenty of juicy articles, images, videos and discussions about Mattala airport

Well All looking good for the country!

BIA Bidding for Stage 2 - http://airport.lk/bia/bidding_doc.php

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