Grupo CCR, which already owned 49% of Aeris, concessionaire of the Juan Santamaría airport, has now acquired 97% of this firm and will be in charge of the management of the air terminal.
Elfinancierocr.com reports that "... The control that the CCR Group will now have at the airport will not harm the running of the air terminal.This means that neither the airlines nor the companies that currently work on the property will be negatively affected in any way, according to Rafael Mencía, Aeris' executive director."
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.
The company managing San Jose International Airport will be issuing bonds in order to refinance bank debt assumed in the works to expand the terminal.
From a statement issued by Moody´s:
New York, September 18, 2015 -- Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") assigned a provisional rating of (P) Ba2 to Aeris Holdings Costa Rica S.A. de C.V.'s issuance of approximately US $127 million of senior notes ("Notes").
Of the 4,500 square meters of new commercial area in the Juan Santamaría, 850 square meters are available, which are expected to be tendered in June and July.
Café Britt is the first company that has moved into to this new area and left its old 299 m² premises available, and a competition is already underway to awarded them to another company. In addition to those premises, the only other space left is 550 m², in which the Costa Rica company Aeris, administrator of the terminal, will incorporate shops dedicated to selling clothes and accessories.
A terminal for domestic flights and a new fire station are part of the works that the administration of San Jose International Airport plans to start in November.
This project includes two ramps for aircraft waiting at the new domestic terminal and a fire station in in the southern sector, and it is expected that construction will start in November this year.The investment for these two works to be carried out simultaneously amounts to $20 million and is expected to be completed during 2016.
Following the ending of the contract with the company Exact Change, which offers the service of exchanging currency, Aeris Holding Costa Rica has started procedures for selecting a new provider.
The company managing Juan Santamaria International Airport announced the end of the contract with the Spanish exchange services provider Exact Change, due to the fact that it has not completed the process of registering with the Central Bank of Costa Rica and the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Therefore preparations are being made, for the coming months, to release specifications for a new tender for the service.
Approval has been given to the design of a new maintenance hangar at the Juan Santamaria airport and the project will be started in the first half of the year.
In December the International Civil Aviation Organization approved plans and designs for the construction of a new 10,000 square meter hangar to accomodate up to 6 large aircraft. This will allow for the expansion of the main airport in Costa Rica to the east.
Two new boarding gates and one thousand square meters of commercial areas are to be built with an investment of $20 million at the main airport in Costa Rica.
3000 meters of construction will be added to the fourth stage of the airport that consists of "... In two boarding gates with their respective connecting sleeves which will be located east of the main building." While the second part of the project involves the construction of 1,000 meters dedicated to commercial areas.
The Spanish company FCC won the $34 million contract to build a 10,000 m² hangar for aircraft maintenance.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) made the award for the new hangar where the cooperative in charge of repairing and maintaining aircraft will be relocated to. The new structure will be located 150 meters from the runway of the Juan Santa Maria airport and will be ready in 18 months.
The airport is planning 700 square meters of new retail space, which will include a supermarket and clothing stores.
The information was released by Rafael Mencia, CEO of Aeris, the company responsible for managing the airport, adding that the new premises will be located in the west of the terminal.
"... an area of about 700 m² can be used for stores, as the corridors will consume 300 m²", reported Nacion.com.
The International Airport at San Jose will have added capacity to handle 260,000 passengers a year, with two new boarding gates and another 1,000 square meters in commercial spaces.
As explained Vilma Lopez, deputy director of Civil Aviation, Aeris (manager of the terminal), will be the company in charge of the enlargement process in the east of the terminal, opposite Cooperativa Autogestionaria de Servicios Aeroindustriales (Coopesa R. L).
On offer in Juan Santamaria International Airport are spaces for a gift shop, an ice cream parlor and coffee shop, a fast food outlet, and spaces for ATMs.
Aeris Holding Costa Rica, the company managing the Juan Santamaria Airport, has opened a contest for 3 commercial spaces: a gift shop, with flowers, cards and other items, an ice cream parlor and coffee shop, selling juices and the like, and a fast food restaurant.
The Costa Rican airport operator, Aeris, will be putting out to tender in the short term three areas for selling food and one for a gift shop.
In "a matter of days", a tender will be launched for restaurant areas measuring 66 square meters, said Maria Amalia Revelo, commercial director of Aeris, of the spaces which must be awarded no later than mid-October.
The management company of Costa Rica’s principal international airport intends to take advantage of unused space with more restaurants and shops.
The management company Aeris is pushing plans to expand the range of food services in the airport, and is creating a tender for the 600 square meters currently being used as a dining area.
$100 million of loans have been granted, paving the way for larger passenger capacity at Juan Santamaria Airport.
A press release from the Inter-American Development Bank reads:
Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica has successfully completed a three-year restructuring process and is preparing to more than double its passenger capacity after partnering with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).