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Jan 07, 2016 (newstodate): Passenger throughput at Iceland's Keflavik Airport is exceeding any expectations and, certainly, the capacity of the airport's existing infrastructure.
In 2015 the total volumes of passenger increased by some 25 percent, to five mio passengers, and based on the known new traffic and increases in frequencies on existing routes, expectations run as high as 6.3 mio passengers in 2016 - another hike by 29 percent, y-o-y.
The airport is thus hard pressed to optimize the utilization of the infrastructure as well as expanding the passenger facilities to cope with sustained growth in the coming years.
Most of today's traffic clusters around two sharply defined morning and afternoon peak periods marked by the Transatlantic traffic, and Isavia, the operator of Keflavik Airport, will seek to spread traffic, notably the charter traffic, more evenly over the day to ease the pressure on facilities.
New constructions are, however, needed, and Isavia has undertaken to expanding the passenger areas by around 16,000 sq m in two phases, with 9,000 sq m to be added in 2016 and the remaining 7,000 sq m to be ready in 2017.
By 2032, Keflavik Airport will have a total of 140,000 sq m areas, doubling today's area.
In 2015 the total volumes of passenger increased by some 25 percent, to five mio passengers, and based on the known new traffic and increases in frequencies on existing routes, expectations run as high as 6.3 mio passengers in 2016 - another hike by 29 percent, y-o-y.
The airport is thus hard pressed to optimize the utilization of the infrastructure as well as expanding the passenger facilities to cope with sustained growth in the coming years.
Most of today's traffic clusters around two sharply defined morning and afternoon peak periods marked by the Transatlantic traffic, and Isavia, the operator of Keflavik Airport, will seek to spread traffic, notably the charter traffic, more evenly over the day to ease the pressure on facilities.
New constructions are, however, needed, and Isavia has undertaken to expanding the passenger areas by around 16,000 sq m in two phases, with 9,000 sq m to be added in 2016 and the remaining 7,000 sq m to be ready in 2017.
By 2032, Keflavik Airport will have a total of 140,000 sq m areas, doubling today's area.