A new pier with eight boarding gates and 14 passenger boarding bridges, with an additional gate comprising two passenger boarding bridges for the Airbus A380, will be included in the proposed new development. Construction of the new Stage II, Phase II Expansion Project was commenced in April 2017 and is expected to be completed in 2019. A new terminal with eight more gates is proposed to be built under Stage II of the Phase II Expansion Project. It is planned to have 8 gates, with arrival and departure areas separated vertically. Terminal 2 is planned to open in 2019.This area has duty-free shops, a tea shop, a cafeteria, a smoking lounge, and day-rooms & showers. In the main body of the terminal is SriLankan Airlines' "Serendib Lounge", and the Palm Spirit lounge. On the upper level of this concourse, there are two lounges. Once past security, passengers proceed through the long, arm-shaped concourse housing gates 6–14. The terminal consists of a main terminal building directly connected to one concourse which houses all the gates. All international flights currently use this terminal, until Terminal 2 opens in 2019. The arrival and departure areas are separated horizontally. Terminal 1 opened in 1967 and is the oldest and largest terminal in the airport.Terminal 3 is the new domestic terminal, which opened in November 2012. Terminal 2 is the new international terminal, which is expected to be completed in 2019. Terminal 1 is the current international terminal, built in 1967. The airport has three passenger terminals. Thirty seven(37) airlines currently serve the airport's over 10.79 million annual passengers.
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Facilities Terminals īandaranaike International Airport (airport code CMB ) at Katunayake, Sri Lanka, is 32.5 kilometers north of the island nation's capital of Colombo. In the past, British Airways, KLM, Kuwait Airways, LTU International, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Saudia and Swissair are the airlines that previously served Colombo for many years. SriLankan Airlines is the largest airline operating at the airport, with a fleet of 27 Airbus aircraft. This was the first time in history that an Airbus A380 had landed in a Sri Lankan airport. On 9 January 2012, an Airbus A380-800 operated by Emirates landed at Bandaranaike International Airport. The airport is used by Emirates as an alternative emergency airport for its Airbus A380 aircraft. As part of the airport development program, a passenger train service was launched between the Airport and Colombo Secretariat Station, in June 2010. On, the Sri Lankan Government shifted military aviation operations out of the space adjoining the airport to SLAF Hingurakgoda, thus paving the way for the expansion of civilian operations. Construction of the new Stage II, Phase II Expansion Project is expected to commence in April 2017 and is expected to be completed by 2020. A new terminal with an additional eight gates are proposed to be built under Stage II of the Phase II Expansion Project. A pier with eight aero-bridges opened in November 2005. Airport expansion projects have recently been undertaken at the airport under the Stage 1, Phase II Expansion Project. In the early 1990s the position of the airport's runway (04/22) was shifted northward and the old runway was made into a taxiway for departing and arriving aircraft. The Boeing 747-200B was operated by Condor carrying German tourists from Frankfurt. On 7 November 1971, the first Boeing 747 landed at the airport. It was renamed Katunayake International Airport in 1977, but was changed back to Bandaranaike International Airport in 1995. It was named after former Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike, in 1970. The airport was completed in 1967, and Air Ceylon, the national carrier, began international operations from it using a Hawker Siddeley Trident and a leased British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) VC-10. In 1964 Anil Moonesinghe, the Minister of Communications, started the building of a new international airport to replace Ratmalana, with Canadian aid. Bandaranaike removed all the British Military airfields from Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and the airfield was handed over to the Royal Ceylon Air Force (RCyAF) and renamed Katunayake part of it still remains a military airfield. The airport began as a Royal Air Force airfield in 1944 during the Second World War, RAF Negombo with No.
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