Fraport eyes 22 more airports

Fraport Greece is readying to grow 4 of the land airports it operates, arsenic well arsenic considering joining the contention for different 22 determination airports acceptable to travel up for grabs.

The aviation manufacture is awaiting the large tender prepared by the GrowthFund for the concession of 22 small determination airports which presently run under the power of the Civil Aviation Authority. In this context, Fraport is considering the anticipation of expressing involvement erstwhile the tender process begins. 

Notably, Fraport AG, successful concern with its Greek partners, the Konstantakopoulos Group and the Copelouzos Group, is astir to take implicit the absorption of Kalamata Airport aft the corresponding planetary tender, successful which it was selected arsenic the contractor.

The subsidiary of Fraport AG besides intends to instrumentality the enlargement of the airports of Corfu, Kos, Mykonos and Santorini successful the coming years, successful an concern programme of 200 cardinal euros, with the purpose of upgrading their facilities. Their enactment is based connected some the precocious volume of rider traffic they grounds and the important borderline for further development, arsenic their existing infrastructure has begun to scope saturation points.

In summation to the concern of €200 million, the institution foresees an further €50 cardinal annually, which will beryllium directed toward smaller-scale projects and interventions for the attraction and upgrading of infrastructure astatine each airports successful its portfolio. At the aforesaid time, successful caller years, a programme of €150 cardinal has been moving done the Development Fund for the remodeling of runways and taxiways to heighten safety.

Capacity enhancement projects are besides under way astatine the airports of Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Hania, so that they tin respond to the accrued traffic expected successful these destinations successful the future. In particular, with respect to the archetypal two, it is estimated that aerial traffic power will besides beryllium strengthened arsenic the caller radar astatine Andravida, successful the western Peloponnese, which covers these two areas, is present being enactment into operation.