5 Airports Taking-Off by 2025

since the dawn of commercial aviation in the 1920s the popularity of air travel has grown at an insatiable rate today more than 3.5 billion passengers travel by plane each year equivalent to half of our planet's population with technology design and enhanced fuel efficiency now allowing commercial aircraft to fly faster and cheaper than at any points before the ever-increasing demand for air travel shows little sign of relenting as a result destinations around the world are under pressure to expand their existing facilities or to construct large new hubs with state-of-the-art facilities automated systems artificial intelligence vast construction product teams and designs from some of the world's leading architects this is a new age of airport design [Music] with its main airports quickly approaching capacity construction of Beijing's second international facility began in 2014 designed by the late Zaha Hadid the 12 billion US dollar scheme will deliver four runways and a terminal that consists of a central hub from which six concourses radiate allowing flexible aircraft movements while reducing walking distances for passengers expected to become the world's largest airport upon its completion in September 2019 Beijing's taxing international will serve seventy two million passengers a year by 2025 despite its already fast scale the site has been designed for further expansion in the future with space for three more runways taking its capacity to over a hundred million passengers per year built on reclaimed land just off the coast of South Korea Incheon International has been undergoing a series of planned expansions since it first opened in 2001 completing phase three and opening its second terminal just ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang the airport currently has capacity for 62 million passengers each year making it one of the busiest in Asia along with the usual facilities the airport also features a golf course spa casino indoor garden and Museum of Korean culture in addition operators claimed to have got processing times down to just 19 minutes for departures and 12 minutes for arrivals well below the global averages ranking consistently as one of the airports council internationals best airports in the world the South Korean government has invested over five billion u.s. dollars into the project to date with the aim of making it a mega hub for East Asia in terms of both passenger numbers and Freight with the fourth and final phase of its development set for completion in 2020 Incheon International will boast two terminals for satellite concourse is a hundred and twenty eight gates five runways and a capacity of 100 million passengers each year [Music] the airport once described by former US Vice President Joe Biden as third world is undergoing a major eight billion u.s. dollar redevelopment transforming it into a world-class facility that New Yorkers can be truly proud of commencing in 2016 with works to Terminal B the airport has so far continued to operate throughout the redevelopment works with a number of Airlines temporarily relocating to other terminals the scheme will eventually unify terminals B C and D into one continuous structure almost a mile long offering state-of-the-art passenger facilities improved mobility and an annual capacity of over 50 million passengers sky bridges between the terminal building and departure gates will be high enough to allow aircraft to taxi beneath while the new air train LaGuardia will connect the airport to New York's existing transport system opening in stages up to 2021 the new LaGuardia will be the first Airport we built in the United States in over 20 years set to take off by 2022 the new terminal 2 at q8 International will significantly expand the airport adding 28 gates and increasing capacity by 13 million passengers each year the triangular building has a central height of 25 meters facades that span over 1.2 kilometers and a vast total area of 708 thousand square meters located in one of the hottest inhabited areas of the world the roof features photovoltaics and is punctuated to allow natural light into the building while deflecting direct solar radiation these features along with the thermal properties of its concrete structure are sets make the new facility the first LEED Gold certified passenger terminal in the world with tan sonnets International Airport already the busiest in the country and processing some seven million passengers a year above its twenty five million passenger capacity the Vietnamese government approved the construction of a new airport to relieve pressure and help boost their economy with construction originally due to commence in 2021 works on the long Thanh International Airport in Vietnam were brought forward two years and are now due to start in 2019 the airport's design draws heavily from lotus flowers an inspiration which can be seen throughout the terminal planned in three phases the seven-point eight billion u.s. dollar first stage is set to complete by 2025 and will consist of a terminal and two runways capable of processing twenty five million passengers each year phase two will expand the airport's capacity to 50 million passengers by 2035 while its third and final phase will allow long Thanh to serve between 80 and a hundred million passengers each year by 2015 if you enjoyed this video and would like to get more from the definitive video channel for construction subscribe to the b1m [Music]

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Length: 8min 6sec (486 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 09 2019