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Singapore to build budget airline terminal

SINGAPORE - Singapore's Ministry of Transport has plans to build a separate terminal at Changi Airport for budget airline travelers.

The planned low-cost building would have no carpeting, minimal seating, limited services, no air-conditioning and no aerobridge to connect the terminal to planes for passenger boarding.

Budget airlines have been one of the hottest aviation developments in recent months. "It will be a problem for us if we cannot cater to them, " Minister of Transport Yeo Cheow Tong said, adding that "we do not know if they will be a big factor in the region, but we cannot take the risk."

If the green light is given, the new terminal could be ready within 18 to 20 months, and it would cost only a fraction of Changi Airport's Terminal Three which has a price tag of S$1.75 billion (US$1 billion).

(Asia Pulse/CNA)
 
Dec 20, 2003


 
         
         
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