{"id":98881266,"date":"2011-01-25T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/major-expansion-announced-for-hong-kong-international-airport\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:07:48","slug":"major-expansion-announced-for-hong-kong-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/major-expansion-announced-for-hong-kong-international-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Expansion Announced for Hong Kong International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hong Kong International Airport at night (Image: Wikimedia)\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/1\/Hong_Kong_International_AirportOT.jpg\" alt=\"Hong Kong International Airport at night (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"367\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Airport Authority Hong Kong has announced a major expansion of the city\u2019s international airport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Stanley Hui said the HK $7 billion expansion will be spread out over four years and is necessary to keep up with rising air traffic demand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Construction of a new passenger terminal is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new terminal will create about 2,000 jobs and increase passenger capacity by 10 million annually, according to Hui.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said the airport will also consider adding a third runway after weighing the environmental and economic impacts of such a plan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A second phase of the project will be announced in the near future, said Hui. That phase is expected to boost capacity by an <em>additional<\/em> 10 million. The total cost of the plan amounts to about US $900 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110125-705203.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airport Authority Hong Kong has announced a major expansion of the city\u2019s international airport. &nbsp; Chief Executive Stanley Hui said the HK $7 billion expansion will be spread out over four years and is necessary to keep up with rising air traffic demand. &nbsp; Construction of a new passenger terminal is expected to begin in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897571,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881266\/revisions\/98897571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}