San José Airport Will
Count With Eight
Additional Board Gates
For the High Tourist
Season
The high tourist season
is upon us and workers
at the Juan Santamaría
International airport in
San José are feverishly
working to put the
finishing touches to
eight new boarding
gates.
Although the work will
be completed in the
coming days in time for
the rush of tourists,
they will have no place
to sit, as the chairs
for the boarding gate
will cannot be installed
as the order will not
arrive in the country in
time.
The inauguration of the
boarding gates is set
for December 7 but the
seats that will be used
by passengers at the
airport will not arrive
until January.
To accommodate
passengers, airport
officials said they will
redistribute the 1.000
chairs now in use in the
terminal, providing some
125 chairs to each gate,
200 short to provide
comfort.
Airport officials also
plan to use folding
chairs to replace the
permanent chairs,
especially in the lower
concourse where there is
little traffic, said
Eduardo Chamberlain,
Alterra's engineering
director.
Chamberlain added that
he did not know the
reason for the delay in
the delivery of the
seats and
notwithstanding the
missing chairs, the
boarding gates will be
ready in time.
The December 7 date was
set by officials of the
Consejo Técnico de
Aviación Civil (CTAC) -
civial aviation - who
ordered Alterra
Partners, the managers
of the airport, to have
the four upper gates and
four lower ones, located
at runway level, ready
by the date.
In addition to the
gates, the immigration
area will be expanded to
allow more immigration
officials to handle the
expected large volume of
passengers. With the
expantion there will be
18 immigration posts
instead of the 12 that
are in use now.
The Café Britt store had
to be closed to allow
for the expansion of the
immigration area.
The construction of the
added gates began last
August when Alterra
added an additional
1.100 square metres of
area. |
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