{"id":198343,"date":"2018-07-30T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=198343"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:25:34","slug":"algiers-airport-expansion-costing-usd-672-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/algiers-airport-expansion-costing-usd-672-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Algiers Airport expansion costing USD 672 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers \u2013 Expansion works at the Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algiers, the capital of Algeria should be complete by early 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.dz\/economie\/76883-nouvelle-aerogare-d-alger-le-projet-a-coute-plus-de-80-milliards-da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Alg\u00e9rie Presse Service (APS)<\/em><\/a> quoted Public Works and Transport minister Abdelghani Zaalane as saying. The project cost over DZD 80 billion (USD 672.3 million at current exchange rate), the minister said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_198340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198340\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aeroportoargel.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-198340\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aeroportoargel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Expansion works are underway at the airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After visiting the site in the weekend, Zaalane said the project is 88% completed, and the main building is 99% done.<\/p>\n<p>An entirely new airport is being built, with capacity set to increase from a current 6 million to 10 million passengers per year.<\/p>\n<p><em>APS<\/em> said the expansion comes in line with a fleet renewal for the country\u2019s state-run carrier Air Alg\u00e9rie, which is planning to purchase at least 25 new aircraft from 2019 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The premises under construction span a 50-acre area and will include parking for 4,500 vehicles, three aprons, metro and train stations, a hotel and a new control tower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-198339\">Reproduction\/YouTube<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-198340\">APS Photo<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Works are due for completion by the beginning of 2019. The new facilities will increase capacity to 10 million passengers per year, up from a current 6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":198339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[4153,37005,2857,2034,2033,4154],"class_list":{"0":"post-198343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-abdelghani-zaalane","9":"tag-aeroportos-en","10":"tag-airports","11":"tag-algeria","12":"tag-algiers","13":"tag-houari-boumediene-international-airport"},"wps_subtitle":"Works are due for completion by the beginning of 2019. The new facilities will increase capacity to 10 million passengers per year, up from a current 6 million. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}