Split Airport opened its new passenger terminal today after two and a half years of construction. The project, valued at 59.4 million euros, will enable the airport to handle an additional one million passengers per year and ease summer congestion. The terminal was officially opened at 12.15 CEST by the Croatian Prime Minister, Andrej Plenković, and the Minister for Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Oleg Butković. The airport's General Manager, Lukša Novak, noted, "The terminal will be three times the size. Instead of the current 14.000 square metres it will have 50.000 square metres. This additional space will enable us to handle 2.500 passengers per hour instead of the current 2.000. That totals 40.000 travellers per day".
The multi million euro project stretches over a total area of 80.000 square metres and involved the construction of a car park with the capacity to accommodate 900 vehicles, as well as a bus terminal, that can cater for up to 49 busses. The passenger terminal itself features thirty check-in desks, seven semi-automated security lanes, a panoramic restaurant with views of the tarmac, a new premium lounge and an automated baggage sorting area. “This project has improved the airport’s infrastructure, increased its capacity, boosted the quality of service and enabled it to become Schengen-ready in the future. This capacity, with some minor adjustments, will be sufficient for the next twenty years”, Split Airport said.
Following today’s opening, the old passenger building will be overhauled and the two structures will be combined to form a single functioning unit. Furthermore, Split Airport plans to overhaul its runway, build a parallel taxiway and expand the apron, which should reduce airside congestion. As Croatia’s most profitable, the airport has funded the project partially through a loan from the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development, while 17.1 million euros were invested from its own means. The Croatian government has exempted the airport from paying tax on profit for the duration of the project. The new terminal opens during Split Airport’s busiest month of the year. It is expected to handle over 3.3 million passengers in 2019.
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The coast will soon be the master of Balkan aviation.
SPU leaves so many other airports behind and will most likely become the second busiest airport in ex-Yu and maybe first if more airlines expand next year.
¡Bravo Hravtska!
https://www.exyuaviation.com/2019/07/split-misses-terminal-opening-deadline.html
It has all the chances reaching 4 million next year.
Projections:
2019 - 3.6m
2020 - 4.1m
2021 - 4.5m
2022 - 5m
............
2050 - 15m
OTP this year will have almost 15 million passengers!
So when any of the exyu countries talks about regional and Balkan leadership the only response should be loud laughter.
Not surprising since they operate all retail at the airport themselves. Duty free is one of the biggest sources of income now days.
http://www.split-airport.hr/images/New_pax_terminal.jpg
what your prediction for the next 2 centuries?
Terminal looks fantastic. Congratulations SPU
Now that SPU terminal is done, what's next? Sarajevo, Ljubljana and Belgrade in that order?
This terminal is an architectual jewel. God bless Croatia.
Keep in mind works at SPU terminal are not finished yet. Only after renovations at the old part are done, then the two terminals will need to be combined and finally then it will be one pretty big new terminal.
Additionally runway should be lengthened by some 500m to allow long haul flights to take off at MTOW!
If you read the text and what officials say then it is clear the additional terminal is just one out of several major airport expansion steps that SPU urgently needs.
In fact, the new terminal is about 315% the size of the old terminal - but airport capacity increases with the use of both terminals only by +25% at the moment!
Therefore it is obvious that other factors are the major capacity constraints: apron and particularly taxiways.
Major focus should now be put at building parallel taxiways to both ends of the runway including a high speed runway exit on each side in order to speed up landings and take offs and to cut down the "lost times" for waiting at runway hold short markings and separations in the air.
The downside is that they could be having much more lcc traffic and more routes and services in winter if they would finally lower their fees.
One can only hope it'll happen now.
SPU airport mgmt should ask itself if it isn't better to lower fees by 20% for all new routes when by doing that u can generate 30% more (new) flight movements and hence gain 10% income in the end!!
31 years left to 2050 given SPU is 3 million, the rough estimation is around 480,000 pax annual increase which means 31*480,000 = 15 million.
I am not surprised that it is most profitable airport in Croatia; huge underpayed seasonal working force, strange private company providing outsourcing, governments with Split in their minds, and CTN management pushing only this airport on the coast; little more to DBV, but pushing ZAD, PUY and RJK to a side. ZAD was first to explore restrictions to GA in Split to raise such traffic and than went to only solution; LCC.
With such back up I am sure that second handling company tender will take decades to happen.
480k per year? That's insane. If you read the news, it says they expect to grow to 3,3M this year, which is less than 200k. Average in the past five years was about 308k and that was mostly due to fantastic 2017. What on Earth are you smoking to come up with 480k per year, every year for decades? So sad.
SAS had the most flights through the past seasons.
I'm surprised there is very little coverage on this at the moment in Croatian media. You would think this is kind of a big deal. Anyway thanks for keeping us updated ex-Yu.
Terminal looks fantastic. Congratulations SPU"
Croatia is extremely centralized. Had SPU received state support Zagreb got, this new terminal building would have been finished 10 years ago and now would have more than 5 million pax.
But god forbid something was bigger and better outside of Zagreb...
What are you blabbering about? Are you ill?