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Old Jun 29, 2019, 4:08 am
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amnicoll
 
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Originally Posted by BigDaz
Also heard the inaugural flight will be in December, it would make sense i guess to do it on the National Day weekend, which is also the F1 weekend this year. But i don't think it will actually get actively used for some time after that.

Its massively overbuilt i hear mixed numbers but i think it's designed to handle something like 40m passengers a year. The current terminals handle much less than half of that number from what i understand they need to work out a way to make sure it does not feel like a ghost town once it opens.
I would have thought it would be utter madness to try and open on F1 weekend one of the busiest periods I would guess. This is a project bedeviled by incompetence and problems I would open it at a quite period and make sure it is working as planned
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