Passenger traffic data at Ben-Gurion International Airport are breaking all forecasts, and it is already clear that the forecast for 2030 at Ben-Gurion Airport at 30 million passengers will be realized sooner than expected - by 2024. This week, 20 million passengers passed through Ben-Gurion Airport, With an increase of 17% compared to 2016.The forecast is that in 2008, more than 23 million passengers will pass through Ben-Gurion Airport, and there are now requests for an additional 7,000 "slots" for the summer of 2018. The IAA is preparing a plan to adjust the infrastructure.The IAA's comprehensive plan, at a cost of NIS 5 billion, is to expand the ground building at Terminal 3, add 86 inspection counters and independent check-in processes. The security inspection area for the handpiece will be expanded by 6 additional inspection machines, while introducing technological and biometric improvements. In addition, in the next few weeks, 8 additional exit sleeves and two bus exit gates will be added to Terminal 3 with the opening of the fourth arm.Due to the increase in low-cost flights and the forecast to double the number of passengers in Terminal 1 from 1.4 million this year to about 3 million passengers by 2019, flight registration counters will be added, the hand-checking area will be expanded, and border control posts and number of exit gates will be increased.The evacuation of the cargo area near Terminal 1 will enable the passengers to increase their passenger capacity for domestic flights and the anticipated increase in the closure of Sde Dov. The longer-term plan is that Terminal 1 will be a fully independent terminal for low-cost flights, and passengers on these flights will also exit and enter Israel via this terminal. This is when the domestic flights will be built a separate terminal.The increase in passenger traffic to and from Israel is a direct result of the open skies policy led by Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. "We are committed to accelerating the development of Ben-Gurion Airport in order to prevent a situation in which the main entrance and exit gate of the State of Israel will be blocked by passengers and cargo. The plan will provide a response to the immediate needs of Ben-Gurion Airport and its response to the increasing traffic of passengers, "the Airports Authority said yesterday.
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StarAlliance have applied to operate their own lounge in the new wing.
Wow, source?
Aren’t they building a new Internatinal Airport in the south?
I just hope it isn't the same source as the SMR dream story going around.
LH/LX Station Manager TLV.
So its LH/LX/OS that applied or StarA?
Avi Friedman, director of United Airlines Israel, said that the airline was negotiating to open a business lounge for passengers at Ben Gurion Airport, similar to lounges in airports around the world. If it succeeds, United will be the first airline other than El Al to have such a lounge. All airlines currently use a lounge operated by the airport.However, Friedman is doubtful that space can be found for a United-only lounge. “When Terminal Three was built it did not take into consideration the possibility of lounges for airlines. If possible, Star Alliance, the international consortium of airlines, would take space for all its member airlines.”
