Jazeera Airways has been granted approval by the Kuwait Council of Ministers for land to build a dedicated passenger terminal and car park buildings at Kuwait International Airport.
The terminal is a solution proposed by the airline to help ease the congestion at Kuwait International Airport, the country’s only primary airport, which is currently operating over capacity.
The project’s investment value is KD14 million ($46.232), and its total construction time frame is 15 months, including the permits acquisitions phase.
The terminal is part of the airline’s ‘Next Big Thing’ series of value boosting projects and initiatives tasked with creating a better travel experience on ground and in the air. Other initiatives include a remote check-in facility, in-flight broadband internet, a business class lounge, and long-haul flights. [Source]
Rumors of a dedicated Jazeera Airways terminal had been floating around for years and it looks like they finally got the approval from the government. Until the new terminal is built, Jazeera Airways are setting up a remote check-in station for the current airport:
Remote Check-in
Jazeera are building a check-in facility two minutes away from the main airport terminal. You arrive at the facility where parking valets will meet you, unload your baggage and then park your car for you. You then check in your baggage at this facility and get your boarding pass before being shuttled to the main terminal where you can head straight to immigration. The idea here is that you’ll bypass the airports congestion by skipping the whole parking and check-in process at the main terminal. They’ve already started construction on this facility and it should be operational by the end of this year. [Source]
So if I am to understand this correctly, we will end up having a total of 4 different terminals. We have the current main terminal at the Kuwait International Airport, the Sheikh Saad terminal, the huge new terminal that will start construction soon and now the Jazeera terminal. Nice.
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“You then check in your baggage at this facility and get your boarding pass before being SHUTTLED to the main terminal where you can head straight to immigration”
It seems like I won’t be using Jazeera Airways in the future. Dropping my luggage at one terminal and then be “shuttled” to another terminal to pass through immigration seems like a hassle to me……. at least that’s my opinion…..
I wonder for Arrivals if passengers will be able to collect their luggage from the main terminal or if they have to be shuttled back to another terminal to collect their luggage……
Don’t forget the “temporary” steel structure terminal they are planning to build as a “stopgap” with capacity for 5 million passengers that’s supposedly going to be built in 13 months to be used to provide excess capacity until the new airport is completed.
The following is from MEED.com June 14 (subscription only):
Kuwait moves award date for temporary airport facility
Passenger support building to become operational within 450 days of contract signing
Joint venture of Turkey’s Cengiz and local First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting ) submitted a low bid.
The contract for the temporary passenger support building at Kuwait International Airport (KIA) is expected to be awarded after Ramadan.
The facility has a design capacity of 4.5 million passengers annually. It will support the existing terminal, which has been operating beyond capacity, while construction has started on the recently awarded $4.3bn Terminal 2.
The tender calls for the building to become operational within 450 days following signing of the contract.
A consultant tells MEED a 450-day construction period is feasible. “It’s going to be a steel structure…we’ve participated in similar projects in other regions and 450 days is doable.”
The new passenger support building will be constructed on northern side of the existing terminal.
Another source has earlier told MEED the project has been transferred from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the Al-Diwan al-Amiri, which has allocated a special budget for the project.
A joint venture of Turkey’s Cengiz Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticareta and local First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting (FKTC) submitted a low bid of KD52.8m ($174m) for the contract to build the new passenger support building in December 2015. Apart from the Cengiz/First Kuwait JV, other bidders which submitted an offer for the passenger support facility include:
Corsan Corviam Construction / Isolux / Kolin JV (Spain/Turkey) / Al-Toubad General Trading & Contracting Company (local): $258m
Synohydro (China) / Al-Hani Construction & Trading Company (local): $276m
Metallurgical Corporation of China (China) / Khaled Ali al-Kharafi & Bros Construction Contracting Company (local): $278m
Limak (Turkey) / Mohd Abdul Mohsen al-Kharafi & Sons (local): $291m
China State Construction Engineering (China) / Bayan National Construction Contracting Company (local): $296m
TAV (Turkey) / Consolidated Contractors Company (Athens-based): $417m
Obermeyer (Germany) / Kuwait Arab Contractors (local): $600m
Kuwait has one of the least developed airports across the GCC. The warehouse of its cargo terminal caught fire on 11 June.
Apart from Terminal 2 and the passenger support building, the tender for the contract to design and construct a new runway is ongoing.
…and when will this be done?
were u even reading?
Unfortunately, they changed the design
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIFPa7sj6ze
Wow, marvelous