Ministry: Penang airport expansion to start mid-2020
The expansion project is scheduled to start work on June 2020 and is expected to take three years to complete, Chow said. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow read out a March 12 parliamentary reply he received from the transport minister regarding the expansion and proposed Kulim airport. The expansion project is scheduled to start work on June 2020 and is expected to take three years to complete, Chow said. The PIA expansion project is to increase its capacity to accommodate 12 million passengers a year from its current 6.5 million capacity.Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng announced last week that the airport will be expanded at a cost of about RM1.2billion to accommodate 16 million passengers.
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