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Wednesday, September 13, 1972

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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