Sri Lanka main airport moves 6.34mn pax in 2011: official

Mar 12, 2012 (LBO) - Passenger movements through Sri Lanka's main international airport rose to 6.4 million above its design capacity of 6 million passengers, and the state-run agency was scrambling to add capacity, an official said.







The airport was building a one million passenger domestic terminal to be completed by the end of the year.

But it will initially used for international traffic, he said.

Private jet movements had also increased 27 percent, making it difficult to accommodate them, he said.

They will be shifted to small airport at Ratmalana, south of the capital Colombo he said.




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The airport firm had signed up a loan from Japan to up passenger capacity to 12 million and cargo to 510,000 by 2015, he said.

Sri Lanka one-million-passenger second international airport in Hambantota is also expected to be completed by end 2012 or the first quarter of 2013.

Last year, according to the agency's annual report, the international airport at Katunayake handled 5.





259 million passengers indicating an increase of 21 percent.

Chairman of the state airport agency, Sri Lanka Airport and Aviation Services Ltd, Prasanna Wickramasuriya told a forum organized by Sri Lanka's shipping academy that the airport handled 208,000