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DIGEST FROM ISSUE NR. 1277, PUBLISHED ON 14 SEPTEMBER 2026
Airport Development (DEV)
Europe
ITALY
SACAL, operator of Calabria’s airports, has announced a EUR 64 million investment programme for Reggio Calabria Airport, also known as Airport of the Strait (Reggio Calabria). The programme covers terminal expansion, safety, airside works, environmental measures, digitalisation and access roads.
EUR 36 million is allocated to expanding the arrivals terminal and airport building. A further EUR 2.5 million would fund a new fire-service station, while EUR 3.5 million is planned for demolition of unsafe structures and site rehabilitation. Another EUR 3.5 million would renew movement-area pavement.
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SLOVENIA
The Slovenian government has launched procurement for documentation required to prepare a new state spatial plan for Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, which is leading the planning process, said the plan would provide a framework for the airport’s long-term redevelopment. It would identify areas for new facilities, aircraft movement areas, buildings and equipment.
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GREECE
Athens International Airport will re-tender its capacity expansion under a phased contracting model after cancelling its current procurement. The airport’s terminal complex has a nominal annual capacity of 26 million passengers, yet handled 34 million in 2025, up 6.7% year on year. It forecasts 35.2–35.6 million passengers in 2026 and is reviewing a larger programme as traffic could reach 40 million by 2028.
Athens International Airport S.A., the operator, plans to issue an open tender in October. The previous EUR 1.3 billion programme targeted capacity of 40 million passengers by 2032 through main- and satellite-terminal extensions, additional aircraft stands and car parking. A Terminal 2 is also reported to be under assessment.
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TÜRKİYE (TURKEY)
Turkey has issued a positive environmental impact assessment decision for the planned Trabzon New Airport. The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change cleared the project, which is estimated to cost TRY 45.65 billion (USD 943 million). Most of the proposed airport would be built on reclaimed land, requiring approximately 97 million tonnes of marine fill and a 6,000 m protective breakwater. The plans also include excavation of around 13 million tonnes of material to raise the existing airport site.
The proposed facilities include a 110,000 m² terminal, a covered car park for 1,250 vehicles, an air traffic control tower, technical buildings and support facilities.
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Russia & C.I.S.
RUSSIA
Russia has added airport construction and reconstruction projects to its national infrastructure plan. The updated federal territorial-planning scheme includes reconstruction at Kazan International Airport (Tatarstan), Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport, Ekimchan Airport (Amur Oblast), Khatanga Airport and Dikson Airport (Krasnoyarsk Krai), and Ugolny Airport (Chukotka). It also identifies a proposed airport complex at Arkhyz Airport (Karachay-Cherkessia), a terminal complex at Orenburg International Airport (Orenburg Oblast) and works at Zyryanka Airport (Sakha Republic).
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MOLDOVA
Chișinău International Airport must re-evaluate its terminal-expansion tender after a procurement challenge overturned the award decision. Moldova’s National Agency for Solving Complaints ordered the review on 7 September after two of the four bidders challenged the result. The airport said the procurement itself remains active, but its timetable will be revised while its evaluation group reassesses the previously selected proposal.
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GEORGIA
United Airports of Georgia has issued a tender for a GEL 13.28 million (USD 5.1 million) passenger terminal at Telavi Airport. The terminal is planned to handle about 50,000 passengers annually. Bids were to be accepted from 25 to 29 September, and the selected contractor must complete the works within 21 months of contract signature.
The project is intended to restore regular domestic air services to the Kakheti region. It replaces earlier ambitions for a full international airport, with the revised concept focused on domestic operations.
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North America
UNITED STATES
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (North Carolina) plans to invest more than USD 1 billion to add 12 to 16 gates by 2033. Airport officials have not identified the concourses involved or set project-specific construction dates.
The programme is expected to follow completion of the USD 4 billion Destination CLT redevelopment in 2027. That programme includes a USD 600 million main-terminal lobby renovation, which has opened, and a fourth parallel runway scheduled to enter service in September 2027.
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Chattanooga Airport (Tennessee) has begun procuring a new 20-year master plan as it prepares a terminal expansion and completes current projects. Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport recorded 632,400 passenger boardings in 2025, 14% above its previous annual record. Its existing 2019 master plan was intended to cover a 20-year period, but airport officials say many planned projects are already near completion. Traffic and terminal update
Three firms are under review to prepare the new plan.
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Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (Colorado) has moved its replacement terminal into design development despite a forecast USD 30 million funding gap. Aspen/Pitkin County Airport is planning a new terminal, landside works and ramp improvements costing about USD 360 million. Pitkin County’s preliminary financing model supports about USD 330 million, although voters have authorised up to USD 340 million in airport debt.
The opening-day design would increase passenger-waiting seats from 252 to 512 and accommodate around 1,975 people during flight disruptions, nearly twice the present capacity. It would also...
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Latin America & The Caribbean
COSTA RICA
Limón Airport is expected to tender a new terminal project in the first quarter of 2027, with construction targeted to begin before the end of the year. The project would replace the current small, flood-prone terminal facility, which serves domestic traffic. The Ministry of Public Works and Transport intends for the replacement building to handle domestic flights initially and potentially international services in the medium term.
USD 40.5 million has been approved for the terminal project...
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HONDURAS
Honduras has announced plans to expand Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (San Pedro Sula), including runway expansion, terminal remodelling and improved access to the airport. The proposal also includes a third terminal floor and two additional boarding bridges. President Nasry Asfura said the programme is intended to increase capacity and improve facilities at the airport, which serves San Pedro Sula and Honduras’s northern commercial and industrial region.
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SURINAME
Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (Zanderij), the country’s principal international gateway serving Paramaribo, is proposed for a major upgrade. N.V. Luchthavenbeheer, the airport operator, has outlined a development concept including six passenger boarding bridges — up from four — associated aircraft-parking facilities and a 2,700 m high-speed parallel taxiway.
The existing 3,480 m runway would not be extended following technical and safety assessments, but would...
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Africa
EGYPT
Egypt is considering airport-city developments: privately backed commercial, logistics and aviation-service districts around airports. The government has not named locations, published land plans or set values, delivery models or timetables for the proposed districts.
The policy accompanies a broader programme to expand passenger-terminal capacity. Cairo International Airport is planning Terminal 4, designed for about 40 million passengers annually and expected to raise the airport’s overall capacity to around 70 million passengers.
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CAMEROON
Cameroon is discussing a USD 2 billion new airport near Douala, but the proposal remains before feasibility work and lacks an approved delivery plan. A. Epstein and Sons International and financial partner Integrated Trade Finance raised the project during the 27 August US–Cameroon economic dialogue. The long-standing proposal envisages a new airport near Édéa, between Douala and Kribi in Cameroon’s Littoral region.
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SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa’s Eastern Cape is considering an international cargo hub at Bhisho Airport in Bhisho. Bhisho, also known as Bisho or Bulembu Airport, was associated with former Ciskei International Airways and became largely dormant by the early 2020s. It has no scheduled passenger services and is used by the South African National Defence Force and the South African Police Service air wing.
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Middle East
SYRIA
Syria has begun preliminary work to convert Mezzeh Military Airport (Damascus) into a limited private- and executive-aviation facility. The General Authority of Civil Aviation and Air Transport said the airport would complement Damascus International Airport, rather than handle scheduled commercial traffic. Current work includes rubble removal and upgrades to air-navigation infrastructure, while technical and regulatory requirements for reclassification remain incomplete.
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SAUDI ARABIA
Six bidders have prequalified for a 30-year public-private partnership to redevelop Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (Qassim). Matarat Holding and the National Centre for Privatisation & PPP launched the expression-of-interest process in February. The concession, which includes the construction phase, would require the selected partner to design, finance, construct, transfer, operate and maintain the airport.
The project includes a passenger terminal,...
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Asia Pacific
BHUTAN
Bhutan has completed a phased master plan for Paro International Airport that would double annual passenger capacity to 1.6 million and raise hourly aircraft movements from six to nine by 2054. Land acquisition has not yet begun. Immediate requirements include widening the runway strip to 75 m, building a 240 m runway-end safety area at Runway 33, and realigning the Bondey–Paro College of Education road over 4,367 m.
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INDIA
Tamil Nadu has shortlisted Cheyyur in Chengalpattu district and Manellore near Gummidipoondi in Tiruvallur district as candidate sites for a second airport serving Chennai. The state has asked the Airports Authority of India, India’s national airport operator, to conduct pre-feasibility studies before recommending a site. Neither location has been selected, and no land acquisition, environmental clearance, funding approval or construction activity has begun.
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P.R.C.
Ningbo Lishe International Airport (Zhejiang province) has selected a concept design for Terminal 3 and its future terminal-area expansion. The selection is a planning milestone, not a construction approval: no delivery timetable, funding decision or construction tender has been announced. A consortium led by East China Architectural Design & Research Institute was selected through the international design process.
The concept proposes a 280,000 m² Terminal 3 with...
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SOUTH KOREA
Incheon International Airport will renovate Terminal 1 by 2035 in a KRW 1.778 trillion (USD 1.3 billion) project. The terminal opened in 2001 and has an area of 506,000 m². Incheon International Airport Corporation plans to replace 25-year-old mechanical, electrical, telecommunications and firefighting systems, while upgrading baggage handling from selective screening to 100% screening.
The design is due for completion by September 2027, with construction...
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Consultant & Contractors (CON)
Luton Rising has appointed Mace Consult and Arcadis to manage the next delivery phase of London Luton Airport’s expansion. London Luton Airport (Luton, England) is owned by Luton Rising, the council-owned company responsible for its long-term development. The partners will provide programme, project, cost and commercial management, including the schedule, governance, controls and risk-management systems for the scheme.
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Aena has awarded a EUR 40 million contract to regenerate runway 18R–36L at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport (Madrid, Spain). Elsan, an OHLA subsidiary, will carry out the work with Padecasa and Conelsan. The project will renew the runway and access-taxiway surface layers, rehabilitate touchdown and take-off holding areas, replace obsolete visual aids, and install new ducts and cabling.
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Colas subsidiary Sully-Miller Contracting Co. has secured a EUR 70 million contract to reconstruct taxiways at Los Angeles International Airport (California, United States). Los Angeles World Airports, the airport authority, has awarded the contract for the complete reconstruction of the westernmost 1.6 km of Taxiway A and part of Taxiway F. Taxiway A is primarily used by cargo aircraft; LAX handled more than 2.4 million tonnes of freight and approximately 580,000 aircraft movements in 2025.
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Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority has awarded US engineering firm Aecom a design contract for a 3,000 m extension of Route 2020 to Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). The planned line will run from Expo 2020 metro station to the airport’s West Terminal and include two stations. It is intended to provide a rail connection to the airport as Dubai advances its long-term expansion into a major passenger hub.
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Hong Kong International Airport Consultancy Limited, the advisory arm of Airport Authority Hong Kong, has signed an agreement with Harvest Epoch Strategic (International) Investment Limited to support the development of Navoi International Airport (Uzbekistan). The agreement will apply Hong Kong International Airport (Hong Kong, China) management and operational expertise to Navoi Airport, which is positioned as a Belt and Road transport hub. It does not announce construction works, funding or a delivery timetable.
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