NWI Happenings & Rumours
Yep, NWI is going up the world - a thread on PPRUNE and news on the planned expansion and refurbishment of the terminal.
Passing through today (18/7/05) on my way to BHD I noticed an architect's drawing pinned up in the departure lounge. Below a note explained these plans are for the new extension and refurbishment, works to be completed by the end of 2006, to allow for 'planned expansion'.
To summarise from what is on the plans:
- 12 exisiting check-in desks remain
- Landside bar replaced by 'passenger services' office
- Landside café remodelled with larger servery and room for 152 covers
- Information desk, ticket sales, travel agency and car hire desks moved to internal side of arrivals area (ie inside the building, looking out to the access road)
- New security queueing area (a queue? at NWI...?) behind new info desk.
- Full length of landside facade to be glazed, with new rotating doors and new canopy along whole length of building
- Third security channel added; these now rotated through 90 degrees but in the same place
- Departure lounge significantly bigger - 522 seats
- New bar and 100 seat 'Café Oasis' on left hand side of lounge as you enter.
- Business lounge on left hand side of lounge, facing out over stands
- Duty free shop and concession moved to 'back' of lounge (ie looking through lounge towards aircraft stands).
- Baggage reclaim and customs significantly larger; facing the terminal from the aircraft stands, there will be two arrivals entrances - one on left to dedicated domestic arrivals hall, and one to right with access to customs and international arrivals hall. Domestic baggage reclaim accessed through glazed corridor that runs alongside the international hall.
Haven't found any official press releases, so I presume this is currently at planning.
*j*