Alejandro Giammattei, president-elect of Guatemala, announced that during his mandate the administration of the country's airports will be handed over to the municipalities.
The plans of the president-elect, who is due to take office on Jan. 14, 2020, are to hand over the administration of several airports to mayors who have commercial airstrips within their municipalities.
According to the Guatemalan airline guild, it is necessary to modernize the infrastructure of La Aurora International Airport by expanding the southern taxiway, but in the study of the project it is proposed to begin with work on the northern runway.
The consulting firm Deloitte Tetra Tech was hired to prepare feasibility studies, with the aim of establishing the plan to modernize the Guatemalan air terminal.
A public-private partnership would be the most efficient option for modernizing Guatemala's La Aurora International Airport, which urgently requires a strong investment in infrastructure.
The consulting firm Deloitte Tetra Tech was hired to prepare feasibility studies, with the aim of establishing contract models that could be applied to modernize the Guatemalan air terminal.
The plan to build a new international airport in Orotina, which ex-president Solis presented grandiloquently last year, is not a priority for the current Costa Rican government.
A year and a half ago, the administration of President Luis Guillermo Solis announced that the international air terminal would open in a first phase in 2027, and the overall cost of the project was estimated at $2 billion.
Between $6.8 million and $7.5 million range from proposals for the study, redesign, implementation and training of the adequacy and optimization of Panamanian airspace.
On November 20th, the Civil Aeronautical Authority received the public procurement proposals to design the country's air space, whose initial reference value was $8.000.000.
The companies that submitted tenders were Indra Panamá S.A.
$6 million will be allocated to expanding the runway and passenger terminal of the Isla Colón airport in Bocas del Toro.
The Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) has announced that work is expected to begin on the expansion of the air terminal at the beginning of next year.
Afredo Fonseca Mora, director of the AAC, explained to Prensa.com that "..."The first thing we must resolve is the transfer of an area that is located at the end of the track, which is used by the community for sports activities, a situation that shouldnt be happening because it is within the safety perimeter of the air terminal."
Terminal 2, whose opening is scheduled for next year, promises to improve conditions at the Panamanian airport, making it competitive with other hubs in Latin America.
The new Terminal 2, which is 92% complete, will have capacity to serve aircraft in 20 contact doors and 8 remote locations, taxiways, parking platform and aircraft circulation, adding up to pavement surface measuring more than 250,000 square meters.
A US company has submitted an environmental impact study to build an international airport in Limón, Costa Rica, which will have a 4-kilometer runway, an 18,000 square meter passenger terminal and a 30,000 square meter warehouse.
The Guatemalan airport has finally obtained certification from the International Civil Aviation Organization, after several months of complaints from tourism entrepreneurs.
A year and a half after the trade union of tourist companies complained about the damage caused to travelers because of the disorder and the bad conditions of the infrastructure of the terminal, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has carried out an inspection of the airport and decided to grant the certification.
The airlines claim there is a need to improve air traffic management at Tocumen airport, because "it is useless to have a new terminal if the planes cannot land."
Panama is at risk of losing competitiveness to other air hubs, such as Bogotá, if it does not take measures to reduce air congestion at Panama City's international airport, where 3 to 7 minutes delays are reported on flights, due to the fact that the number of air channels is not sufficient for the number of frequencies that operate there.
The new Metropolitan International Airport could start operating in 2027 with an estimated traffic of 7.8 million passengers, and an estimated $1.9 billion initial investment.
The government has presented the results of the siting study, basic design and master plan for the new airport, to be located in Orotina.
Construction of four new boarding gates, a taxiway and expanding the lobby are some of the investment projects that the concessionaire of Juan Santamaria airport plans to carry out between 2017 and 2019.
The company granted the concession for running Juan Santamaria International Airport in Costa Rica, has announced that $100 million will be invested over a period of two years in various works at the terminal, which will be completed by January 2020.
Copa Airlines has announced that from 2018 it will transfer the servicing of its aircraft to the new 10 thousand square meter construction hangar is to be constructed in Tocumen.
The construction process, which requires an investment of $15 million, started a few days ago and will be completed in 2018.The airline plans to transfer all aircraft maintenance operation from the second half of 2018.
The new parking platform raises to 22 the number of aircraft that can be attended to simultaneously at the international airport in San Salvador.
Elsalvador.com reports that "...The work represents the first expansion project with a direct impact on customer service for passenger aircraft at San Salvador International Airport in the last 18 years and will be crucial in improving its operational capacity."
According to the private sector airport infrastructure needs to be improved in order to provide services to meet increasing demand for domestic flights.
Before the start of the next tourist season in the region, the union of private companies in Nicaragua has highlighted the need to improve conditions in the domestic air terminal, in order to provide better services to travelers taking flights to different parts of the country.