French airport operator, Aeroports de Paris (ADP), has signed a contract worth SAR 514.9 million with the General Authority for Civil Aviation to provide design and engineering services for the first phase of King Abdul Aziz International Airport’s (KAIA) development project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The project includes a new terminal with 74 jet bridges, designed to receive 30 million passengers annually and aircraft of varying sizes, including the 555-seat A380 planes.
The new terminal, scheduled to be ready by 2012, will also have a new air control tower with advanced aviation systems and an air cargo village with an annual capacity of three million tons in addition to new tarmacs and aircraft parking facilities.
ADP will design a railway station, which is to be established adjacent to passenger lounges, a multi-storey car parking building, a general plan for maintenance facilities, roads leading to the new terminal, aircraft parking areas and new tarmacs, as well as investment and commercial areas.
