Alexandria Borg el Arab New Airport Terminal Ready To Open!

After months of delays Borg El Arab new Airport Terminal is finally done! It wil soon receive flights. The future plan is to relocate Alexandria El Nouzha Airport flights to Borg El Arab Airport for an extensive renovation of El Nouzha Airport. The plan is to make El Nouzha Airport an airport for Domestic flights and Borg el Arab for International flights.

Some info from Wikipedia about Borg el Arab's New airport terminal:

Borg El Arab is planned to become the principal airport of Alexandria from December 2010 when all traffic is transferred from Alexandria International Airport (currently Alexandria's busiest airport) which will close for two years while undergoing a major re-development program.

Borg El Arab Airport is undergoing a major expansion in terms of the airport's passenger and cargo handling capacity in response to growing demand and the new facilities are expected to become operational from the fourth quarter of 2010.

The airport will consist of a new passenger building and an administration building. The passenger terminal is designed in the shape of a boat and consists of three floors:

• Ground floor: allocated for checking in and luggage handling.
• Second floor: allocated for arrivals, both domestic and international, in addition to administrative offices and airlines offices.
• Third floor: allocated for departures, both domestic and international, immigration procedures and a VIP hall. Commercial activities are spread among the three floors.
• Four airbridges will connect the terminal building to aircraft.

The terminal will contain a duty free shop, a franchise food court, an area dedicated for travel offices and other travel-related services, a fuel supply unit, a control tower, and a fire station available to cover emergencies on site. Also a parking area on the building's front will provide space for 350 vehicles.

The estimated cost of the modernization plan is $120 million and is expected to be complete by summer 2010.

The airport has the capacity to handle 1.2 million passengers per year becoming an adequate replacement to Alexandria International Airport, which will shut down in summer 2010 for a two year period while the airport's facilities are overhauled. During this time all airlines operating to Alexandria will transfer to Borg El Arab Airport.

Youtube video's of the new terminal:

Congratulations Borg El Arab Airport!