Angkasa Pura II Airports Will Cost 80 Million Passengers In 2030

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

PT Angkasa Pura II (Persero) said that Soekarno-Hatta Airport is projected to serve around 80 million passengers by 2030 and continues to grow until 2035 to reach 100 million passengers.

AP II President Director Muhammad Awaluddin revealed that the development of Soekarno-Hatta Airport is very important and needs to be done more massively in order to maintain and increase the competitiveness of Indonesia's largest airport at the global level.

"There is one prognosis, in 2030 passengers from Soekarno-Hatta Airport can approach 80 million passengers, and by 2035 it will penetrate 100 million passengers," Awaluddin said in his statement, quoted from Antara, Friday, December 9.

Awaluddin said AP II already has a capacity planning (capacity planning) to anticipate backlogs for both the passenger and cargo transportation sectors at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, including the construction of Terminal 4 and Cargo Village.

He said Terminal 4 would be the largest passenger terminal in Indonesia with a capacity of up to 45 million passengers. Meanwhile, Terminals 1 and 2 will also be revitalized into a total capacity of up to 45 million passengers.

Meanwhile, the revitalization of Terminal 3 has the potential to increase its capacity to 35 million passengers, so that later Soekarno-Hatta Airport will have a total capacity of more than 100 million passengers.

"We will see with the existing conditions, if our decision is not fast in building Terminal 4, it will be an issue. The level of service will go down, the image and reputation of the airport will go down," he said.

Furthermore, Awaluddin said AP II will also build a Cargo Village area, one of which is to accommodate the e-commerce sector.

"Next year the Cargo Village expansion, no later than the end of 2024 or early 2025 we have Cargo Village which has a capacity of 1.5 million tons - 2.2 million tons per year or much more than the existing Cargo Terminal with a capacity of around 600,000 tons per year," he said.

He said the development of Soekarno-Hatta Airport must also include accessibility. Soekarno-Hatta Airport will become a complete independent city or aerocity in the next 10-20 years and will become a destination point, which will also raise accessibility issues.

"Currently, the working community at Soekarno-Hatta Airport reaches 50,000 - 60,000 per day coupled with passengers who previously reached 160,000 - 190,000 per day. The pulse of life does not stop at Soekarno-Hatta Airport," he said.

Meanwhile, aviation observer Alvin Lie revealed that the management of Soekarno-Hatta Airport is currently running very well.

However, the development of Soekarno-Hatta Airport is very urgent to be carried out massively and quickly to accommodate passenger growth in the future.

"If it is not developed quickly, there will be a congestion for passengers, if for aircraft movements it is still good because Soekarno-Hatta Airport already has three runways," he said.

Furthermore, Secretary General of the Association of Indonesian Express, Post and Logistics Service Companies (Aseperindo) Trian Yuserna said Soekarno-Hatta Airport needed a special cargo warehouse for e-commerce.

He said Soekarno-Hatta Airport must be able to become a cargo warehousing hub for e-commerce in Southeast Asia, where the hub is currently in other countries.

He said, the role of Soekarno-Hatta Airport in shipping goods is not only important and strategic but instead becomes one of the common locomotives for the revival of national economic growth because it will become a national hub for shipping throughout Indonesia and an international hub transipment.

"If there is an e-commerce shipment, there is an Southeast Asian hub. We discussed so that there is an e-commerce tied service center at Soekarno-Hatta Airport so that there is an additional value process, so that it can be sent from Asean collected in Jakarta, at the e-commerce tied center," said Trian.