In Reply to: Change terminals posted by leigh on Sunday, 10. May 2009 at 10:07 Bali Time:
Double check which terimal they will leave from. I have a feeling that Air Asia will now operate from the new Terminal 3.
Jakarta Post article :)
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono inaugurated the futuristic looking, modern and eco-friendly Terminal 3 for domestic flights at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Tuesday, ready for its first flight.
Costing Rp 285 billion (US$ 26.2 million) in investment, the new Terminal 3 has a futuristic glass-clad façade that is not at all in the same style as the more old-fashioned red brick-buildings at Terminal 1, which mostly serves international flights, and Terminal 2, which only serves domestic flights.
Built with glass-clad sides, the building absorbs sunlight, resulting in reduced needs for electricity consumption for lighting.
The building materials used were chosen to muffle noise and vibrations from aircraft engines, while the interior design makes use of fashionable ethnic symbols typical of Solo in Central Java.
It is equipped with free drinking water, the first time this has been installed at the main Jakarta airport.
President Yudhoyono praised the 'eco concept' adopted by state airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II in constructing Terminal 3.
'[Angkasa Pura II has adopted] an eco, environmentally friendly concept in this [terminal], which is good,' he told his audience.
'We will face [negative concequences] in [the next] 10, 20 or 30 years to come if we don't prioritize environmental aspects in our [building] development,' he said.
At present the building stands on a total area of 30,000 square meters, including carparks, with only one pier for parking aircraft, and is designed initially to accommodate 4 million passengers per annum with associated parking spaces for 400 cars and 200 motorcycles.
Terminal 3 will eventually be expanded to include another four piers each capable of accomodating four million pasengers, bringing the total capacity of Terminal 3 up to 20 million passengers per year.
Terminal 3 is built to meet rising passenger demand at the Sokarno-Hatta airport, now comprising Terminals 1 and 2 and 3. The number of passengers using the airport rose from 24.6 million in 2004 to an estimated 32.4 million in 2008.
Given this increased traffic Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 were no longer considered suitable to serve the volume of passengers.
By comparison Terminal 1 can accommodate 9 million passengers and Terminal 2 can handle 16 million passengers.
The Terminal 3 also has special facilities for Indonesian migrant workers who used to arrive at and leave from Terminal 1, at which they were previously asked for illegal fees by airport officers.
Following the start of operations at Terminal 3 Mandala airlines and Air Asia have moved their offices there from Terminal 2.
To facilitate improved access and transportation for passengers, Angkasa Pura II will build a sky-link and a new train station (in cooperation with state railway operator PT Kereta Api).
Those facilities will also connect Terminal 3 and Terminal 2.
Later on Tuesday, after opening Terminal 3, President Yudhoyono also inaugurated the new Tanjung Priok train station in North Jakarta.
The train station, designated as a cultural heritage site by the government, has been rehabilitated at a cost of more than Rp 9 billion after being left abandoned since 2001.
The train station, was orginally built in 1914 by the Dutch colonial government.
An even older station, built in 1885, is located about 1 kilometer away from the renovated one.
The newly renovated train station has started serving passengers from Tanjung Priok to Kemayoran train station in Central Jakarta, and to other cities , including Surabaya in East Java.