Opening 25th of July 2013 to replace the old 85 years old Polonia International Airport (MES). The new airport will carry a new IATA code of KNO and is located in the town of Kuala Namu 42 km east from downtown Medan.
The new Kualanamu airport occupies the land area at least 10 times the size of the old Polonia airport and is designed to handle 8 - 10 million passengers per year in its 1st phase. Upon the completion of all 3 phases, the airport will be able to handle at least 25 million passengers per year.
Polonia will cease operation past midnight on July 24th (early morning of July 25th). All flight services to and from Medan will commence from Kualanamu on July 25th.
While the new airport is reportedly completed and ready to operate, the non toll road access to the new airport is still having issues due to land clearing and resistance from the local community to move away. The construction of a toll road to this new airport from Medan has just begun and is not expected to complete before the end of 2015 or early 2016.
This new airport, however, will be the 1st airport in Indonesia that has direct train service with a train station connected to the airport.
Photos will be posted soon. All photos are credited to respective contributors and owners at skyscrapercity.com
The new Kualanamu airport occupies the land area at least 10 times the size of the old Polonia airport and is designed to handle 8 - 10 million passengers per year in its 1st phase. Upon the completion of all 3 phases, the airport will be able to handle at least 25 million passengers per year.
Polonia will cease operation past midnight on July 24th (early morning of July 25th). All flight services to and from Medan will commence from Kualanamu on July 25th.
While the new airport is reportedly completed and ready to operate, the non toll road access to the new airport is still having issues due to land clearing and resistance from the local community to move away. The construction of a toll road to this new airport from Medan has just begun and is not expected to complete before the end of 2015 or early 2016.
This new airport, however, will be the 1st airport in Indonesia that has direct train service with a train station connected to the airport.
Photos will be posted soon. All photos are credited to respective contributors and owners at skyscrapercity.com
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