Guan Eng: Penang airport bursting at its seams

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GEORGE TOWN: The Federal Government should hasten plans to upgrade the Penang International Airport (PIA) as it is nearly bursting at its seams, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said today.

He said according to a written reply by Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai in Parliament today, the airport would most likely be upgraded only in 2022.

Lim said this meant the ministry would only apply for funds for the upgrading next year in the second rolling plan of the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (2016-2020).

“Even if the application for the airport upgrade is made next year, the expansion works will take at least three years.

“That means it will be ready by 2021 or 2022.

“With 6.26 million passengers currently, inching in towards its maximum (capacity of) 6.5 million passengers per year, the passenger traffic would be at a critical level,” he said in a statement here today.

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