Changi unveils T4 expansion plan

Changi Airport Group (CAG) has unveiled its plans for the development of the Singapore hub’s Terminal 4.

Built on the site of the old budget terminal, the new T4 will have a capacity of 16 million passengers per year, increasing the airport’s overall capacity to 82 million. The development will include a new two-storey terminal building with a total area of 160,000m².

While not acting as a direct replacement of the budget terminal, CAG said the new T4 would “primarily handle narrow body aircraft and be designed to enable quick turnaround of flights”. It will however, handle both full-service and low-cost airlines. Designed in the same style of Changi airport’s existing Terminals 1 and 2, T4 will feature retail outlets and aerobridges at boarding gates.

The airport will also focus on new self-service technologies, such as check-in kiosks and baggage drops. The T4 airfield will also be expanded, with a 38-hectare land plot south of Terminal 3 to be converted into an aircraft parking area capable of housing 17 narrow-body and nine wide-body aircraft stands. This will increase the total number of parking stands at Changi airport by 24% to more than 180.

Meanwhile, CAG revealed that surrounding infrastructure will also be upgraded, including a new road to funnel outgoing traffic directly from T4 on to the East Coast Parkway. A multi-storey car park capable of housing 1,200 vehicles will also be constructed next to the terminal. Construction of T4 will begin this year with the terminal expected to be ready in 2017.