New LCC terminal opens at Centrair
21 September, 2019
A new terminal for low-cost carriers was opened at Chubu Centrair Airport near Nagoya on Friday, raising expectations for a boost to the number of foreign visitors to the Chubu region.
Terminal 2 at the Centrair airport is the third dedicated LCC terminal in the country, after ones at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture, and Kansai Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
The new terminal, consisting of two two-story buildings with a total floor area of 45,000 square meters, has a capacity of 4.5 million passengers a year.
Its construction was launched in May 2018 and completed in July this year.
Fans lined up at the entrance of the new terminal ahead of its opening at 4:40 a.m.
At the front of the line was Takehiro Ando, a 44-year-old company employee from Yokohama who arrived there around 3 a.m. for a one-day trip to Taipei.
“It’s tidy and spacious here,” he said after receiving a commemorative gift and entering the terminal building.
Around 5:30 a.m., Centrair’s Terminal 2 saw the arrival of the first passenger plane, operated by Jetstar from Manila.
A 25-year-old Philippine passenger, who visited the airport for her second time, said she felt Terminal 2 is designed in a simpler and more understandable way than Terminal 1.
“We hope to further publicize the attractiveness of tourism in the Chubu region, while meeting growing inbound demand,” said Riki Inuzuka, president of Central Japan International Airport Co., the operator of the airport in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture.
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