The construction of Zagreb Airport's new passenger terminal is in its final months with work expected to be completed in September and the opening scheduled for March 2017. At approximately 65.000 square metres, the facility is spread over three floors and features three baggage carousels, eight air bridges, nine security checkpoints, 23 passport control booths and a car park with the capacity to handle 1.100 vehicles. The rectangular main body of the terminal extends into two asymmetric piers, with the west pier, for international operations, boasting six air bridges and the east pier, for domestic traffic, featuring two air bridges. In addition, one air bridge in the international section will be able to accommodate larger aircraft such as the Boeing 777 and B747. Furthermore, the airport includes three remote stands next to the terminal, while stands at the current passenger building will also be used if the need arises. Each of the aircraft parking positions at the new facility includes a Visual Docking Guidance System which gives information to a pilot attempting to park their aircraft. The air bridges have been manufactured by the Spanish company ADELTE.
The terminal itself will include a large 600 square metre duty free shop operated by Aelia, cafe bars, smoking cabins and automated baggage handling. Enough space has been left for additional check-in counters and baggage carousels to be added once the new terminal reaches its maximum capacity. The building's supporting structural frame consists of circular columns and beams with pre-stressed concrete decks and four reinforced concrete kerns for vertical communication. While the north facade features air bridges, the south, east and west facades have flat aluminium curtains with structural glazing. The roof is partially glazed, and partially covered by an aluminium shield.
During subsequent phases, the terminal is expected to be expanded to cover the existing three stands, while remote parking positions would be built across from the air bridges. Furthermore, a rapid-exit taxiway is planned in the second phase of the project. The maximum capacity of the terminal in its ultimate phase will be eight million passengers per year. The project is valued at 243 million euros, with the terminal managed by the French-led Zagreb Airport International Company (ZAIC). The consortium is made up of Aéroports de Paris Management 20.77%, Bouygues Bâtiment International 20.77%, the Marguerite Fund 20.77%, International Finance Corporation 17.58%, TAV Airports 15.0% and Viadukt 5.11%.
Photos by EX-YU Aviation News. Click to enlarge.
Terminal entrance and car park
Departures area
Entrance to air bridge, passport control at arrivals
Baggage claim area
Automated baggage handling area and arrivals
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By the way, it says that remote stands will be built in the next phase. Will this phase come before or after the terminal is constructed?
I suppose they've already built bus gates so how do they plan on using them? Will they bus the passengers to aircraft parked in front of the air-bridge?
So basically they will move them only when they start expanding the current terminal?
Do we know how many remote stands they have now?
An interesting note is that all the gates have cameras installed above because the control tower has a very poor view of the new terminal so they will be following through cameras.
Is the current control tower the one at the old terminal?
Yes and I don't think they have any plans to build a new one.
So basically, glass air bridges is what makes the airport?
Does anyone know how different ex-YU athletes are flying to Rio? Serbia's basketball team left today and they are flying via FCO on AZ.
1. Glass airbridges are very expensive to cool in the summer and heat in the winter.
2. This i thought was funny...people tend to board aircraft slower with glass bridges, because they arr looking at the surroundings instead of boarding the aircraft.
I kust find people ate getting too preoccupied with these airbridges. Something a passenger is in for about a minute or two.
Looking fwd to the opening day
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Indeed, I think terminal will expand really fast once traffic hits 5.0 million, untimely this terminal can expand a fair bit, loads of room on east side ,up to 9 additional gates/bridges and at least 3-4 additional gates/bridges on west side of the terminal for total of 20, also terminal building itself can expand by additional 20-30m to the east and about same to the west, approximately 200m across, this could increase the capacity to around 15 million pax. After that new terminal will need to be built. However 15 million pax won't be reached before 2050 I think.
NemjeeJuly 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM
Ah ok, thank you!
So basically they will move them only when they start expanding the current terminal?
Do we know how many remote stands they have now?
There are 3-4, not 100 sure, look it up on google earth, Zagreb gets frequent updates as they added 3D feature in Google, I think Zagreb, Split, Zadar, Pula are only cities with 3D feature in Croatia and the region.
Anyhow, it'll have around 3 remote positions but old apron is massive 1000x175m you can park there entire fleet of planes. New platform is 575m x 175m I think look it up on google you'll see the area cleared and being asphalted, this might expand in future if needed, Zagreb normally handles around 10-12 aircraft in peak hours, I presume there's enough position for 12 aircraft on new platform. Eventually they'll just expand the apron to 585x240m for more traffic and this way increase the handling capacity.
BTW Zagreb airport has only 7 not sure what they're called busses that run from terminal to planes, i am sure there's technical name for these, shuttles? Anyhow there are only 7 of these and Airport won't buy more of these, they're quite expensive too.
Everything you see at the old terminal, small structures around and old post and cargo terminal, all that will be knocked down, only old terminal + emergency services garage and bus garage will remain.
No plans to build anything on that land. old terminal will become new cargo and postal terminal, it'll be modernised and converted in to a large cargo terminal, initially by 2020 it is anticipated capacity of 30-32000 tons to pass through the terminal, however terminal will have capacity of around 250-300 000 tons.
The french want to make the largest cargo terminal out of it and one of the main objectives is to make Zagreb busy cargo centre for this part of Europe.
They're talking to UPS, FEDEX and DHL to bid for contract to run the cargo terminal on 25 year deal.
We'll know everything by mid to late 2017 about the plans and how they'll convert the old terminal in to a cargo and all the bidding for the cargo business.
There's also high likelihood once new terminal expands to the east, new control tower will be built as part of the expansion on top of east pier. Similar to what you have at Zurich & Warsaw Airports.
First of all a big hello to all of you and happy to see you all together !
I can't understand haters but let me tell you this ....i will be happy that any city on Balkans have airport like this even without glass bridges....but on those you can put some adds and comercials and get some money like some other world airports !
I'm was very happy about Skopje and Prishtine airports results.....was happy about Air Serbia going to NY....i'm happy for my home town new airport and sad about other ex YU and Balkans airports bad results....and it will be better next year ! i'm happy for all of you beacuse any new airport....any new airplane in the fleet means stronger region and more jobs.....so go Balkans !
You have to understand that Balkan region is in deep problems....cuts are all around and since all of us lacking goverment support and having goverments like we have we have to be happy that someone want's to build something or to buy local airline beacuse WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY !!!!
New Zagreb airport terminal looks great to me and i'm happy about it and wish them all the luck ! And i hope to see progress around the region cause Balkan region is my home ....i'm Purger and Slavic and damn proud about it !
I wish you all good luck and many new airports....airlines and airplanes !
Purger from Zagreb
Seems like BUD and ZAG will be competing against each other for the regional cargo center. If I am not mistaken BUD is also investing in their cargo capacities.
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