Rwanda Airports Expansion
Rwanda Airports Major Expansion
Since about 7 years, air trafic dramatically grown in Rwanda, in order to meet the demand, the Governement of Rwanda has decided to upgrade its 3 mains airports. It includes terminal and runway expansions and new security, navigation and meteorological systems.
Kigali Kanombe International Airport (100% completed) :
Opening of a Transit Hall
Adding of escalators for disabled people
Check in Desk will be added from 9 to 18
A new conveyor belt will be added (3 in total)
A new car parking will be opened [August 2013 : completed]
Kamembe International Airport [closed from November 1 2014 to March 31 2015] :
More Infos : HERE
New Terminal and Control Tower
New navigation and meteorological systems
New fire trucks
Extension of the runway, from 1500m to 2200m
Gisenyi Airport :
New navigation and meteorological systems
New security scanners
New fire trucks
Works on the runway
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A view of the terminal from a RwandAir CRJ-900NG.
East Africa Spotter 14 February 2014
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More space, more friendly, the expansion of the boarding hall is now almost completed.
East African Spotter 14 February 2014
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The expansion of the arrival hall is taking shape.
East African Spotter 10 February 2014
The new departure lounge, from outside. When the expansion will be finished, the airport will able to handle 1, 5 millions of passengers per year, instead of 500 000 today (the airport can currently handle 300 000 passengers)
Mininfra 18 December 2013
