The newly constructed terminal will for the first time handle hundreds of SADC Heads of States and officials to the 39th Summit in the commercial capital, Dar es Salam.
As of now JNIA is on the fifth position in Africa on air craft movement, the sixth position on the number of passengers and seventh on cargo ranking.
The terminal will serve six million passengers annually, with 2,800 passengers attended during peak hours daily, terminal two will serve 1.5 million passengers and terminal one will serve 500,000 passengers.
JNIA serves 6,700 passengers per day where 3641 are for international flights, 3058 are for domestic. The airport serves up to 201,000 passengers monthly. The airport records 198 aircraft movements daily, with 51 international, 44 domestic and 102 unscheduled domestic flights.
For business class and VIP, the new terminal will have the ability to serve at least 200 passengers, daily.
The buildings and systems of the two terminals need major renovations as most of the infrastructures like the central cooling system are obsolete need replacement.
The terminal is capable to park 19 aircrafts of code C at once or 11 aircrafts of code E like Boeing 787 Dream liner. The terminal also has 12 passenger boarding bridges and provides a car parking space of over 2075.
The terminal has used 276.8 Euro under BAM Construction Company where 85 per cent of the money came from HSBC bank as loan and the remaining 15 per cent was from the government.
Source: Daily News