Changi Airport Development: Master Plan, Commercial Management, and Future Prospects

Changi Airport Development
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Introduction
 Changi Airport is considered as one of the best
airports in the world.
 Since its phase 1 completion, the airport
master plan has been able to account the
demand forecast both in Singapore and Asia
(Freestone, 2009).
 The airport was announced to be started after
Paya Lebar airport reached in maximum
holding capacity with increasing need of the
new growing demand.

Background History
 The first phase of Changi Airport was
completed in the year 1981.
 The second terminal was later
completed a decade later allowing the
airport to hold a capacity of up to 50
million passengers.
 In current position Changi Airport has a
total of four terminal with capacity of
holding more 80 million passengers
annually (Heracleous & Wirtz, 2012).

Land Area Requirements Analysis
 Through the land the reclamation, the airport master plan has been designed to
be able double its current size increasing also the capacity of passengers by
double its current number.
 The requirement of new implementation of runways and taxiways has been
one of main agendas of master plan strategy in meeting the current challenge
of airport operators (Freestone, 2009).
 Changi Airport has in total 3 runways where the third has been in use by the
military but it is under changes to meet requirements of handling bigger planes
to ease congestion.