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The docks will also enable arriving passengers to ascend to the
arrival level in the terminal building.
A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Department said today: "With
the implementation of these more efficiently designed bus docks, it is
hoped to reduce or eliminate delays to passengers which would otherwise have been inevitable as a result of constantly increasing air traffic during the
course of the next few
#1 years.
It is also proposed that a second airbridge be installed at aircraft
parking bays Nos. 3, 4 and 5, in addition to the ones already approved for
each bay.
At present, bays 6 and 7 have three airbridges, and bay 8 two.
As a further step to aid in the docking of aircraft at these
airbridges, automatic guidance equipment will be fitted in bays 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. "This guidance equipment has been tried in bay 8 and was found to
be successful," the spokesman added.
The overall Stage IV project includes expansion of all public and passenger waiting areas, additional office accommodation, a multi-storey car park, an enlarged arrivals hall, a new mechanised outgoing baggage handling system and an enlarged incoming baggage handling system.
The estimated cost of Phase I of this project will now be $35 million
with the addition of the new bus docks and extra airbridges.
"The whole of Stage IV will eventually allow the terminal building
to provide a capability of handling passengers at the rate of 3,200 per hour," the spokesman concluded.
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