Lombok Airport Becomes The Delegation Aircraft Parking Location For The G20 Summit

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Lombok International Airport, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) is confirmed to be one of the parking locations for the VVIP delegation of the G20 Summit international event (KTT) in Nusa Dua, Badung, Bali on 15-16 November 2022.

"Because Lombok Airport is one of the parking locations for the 2022 VVIP G20 delegation aircraft. We ensure the availability of parking stands for delegation aircraft," said Public Relations of PT Angkasa Pura (AP) I Lombok Airport, Arif Haryanto in Praya, quoted from Antara, Wednesday 2 November.

He said Lombok Airport allocated plane parking for four narrow-body aircraft or 2 wide-body aircraft, specifically for the VVIP aircraft of the G20 delegation. At the same time, it also accommodates the parking of wide-body aircraft transporting Wolrd Superbike (WSBK) logistics. In addition, his party also prepared a location for the Indonesian Air Force security aircraft for G20 activities.

"We also continue to provide services for regular flight aircraft at Lombok Airport," he said.

He said Lombok Airport was ready to serve the arrival of the delegation plane, because previously a number of supporting infrastructures at Lombok Airport had been improved and had been tested with the 2021 WSBK event or WSBK 2022 and the 2022 MotoGP event.

"For infrastructure supporting facilities, it is ready, there are no problems," he said.

The development of Lombok Airport has been carried out to support the Mandalika Special Economic Zone (SEZ) which is the location for MotoGP and the development of Lombok and NTB tourism. The terminal capacity of Lombok International Airport is doubled from the current 3.25 million passengers to 7 million passengers per year.

In addition to expanding terminals and supporting facilities and renovating existing terminals, airport development is also carried out by extending and increasing runway carrying capacity, expanding the west side apron, developing cargo facilities, and expanding passenger parking areas, and structuring airport visitors.

The Lombok International Airport runway has been extended from 2,750 meters to 3,300 meters and has increased its carrying capacity, so as to support the operation of wide-body aircraft such as Boeing 777 and MotoGP logistics cargo aircraft. Meanwhile, through the expansion project, the western side of the apron will increase the parking capacity of aircraft from 18 narrow-body aircraft and 4 wide-body aircraft are currently able to accommodate 18 narrow-body aircraft and 6 wide-body aircraft.

Meanwhile, for the development of cargo facilities, the area of the cargo terminal courtyard will be doubled and road access to the bypass road is also built which is separate from public road access to the passenger terminal. This will support the speed of cargo transportation from the airport to the Mandalika MotoGP Circuit and vice versa.