The new terminal will increase the airport’s handling capacity to 12.5 million passengers per year from the current eight million passengers, adding about 65,000 square metres to the airport’s total floor area of 441,165 square metres.
Terminal 2 of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) will open its doors on July 1 after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte inaugurates the facility.
The new terminal will increase the airport’s handling capacity to 12.5 million passengers per year from the current eight million passengers, adding about 65,000 square metres to the airport’s total floor area of 441,165 square metres.
MCIA T2 is expected to give Cebu a major boost as the second major destination in the Philippines after Manila.
President Duterte said the new facility "will promote tourism, stimulate commerce and spur economic activities in the Visayas region. Without doubt this project will become a catalyst for inclusive countryside development in the region.”
The President said his administration will build more airports and other infrastructure projects across the archipelago as part of its ambitious Build, Build, Build program.
"This embodies our commitment to enhance mobility and connectivity so we can provide safe, convenient and dependable transportation for people and good throughout the archipelago," he said.
As part of the government’s airport infrastructure programme, MCIA will also likely get a second runway.
In June last year, GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corp. (GMCAC), which operates MCIA under a concession agreement, submitted an unsolicited proposal to rehabilitate the existing taxiways and runways; build a parallel taxiway and a second runway; and construct a third terminal.
Company officials said then that this would require the acquisition of more land in the first phase and a reclamation project for the second phase, when the second runway would be built.