The world’s airports will face many challenges in the future, even in cases when they are well-positioned. Notably, Asia is vastly expanding its airport infrastructure to ensure that business and leisure tourists can travel more easily.
Accordingly, growth seems to be the buzz word at conferences, such as the “2nd Annual South East Asia Airport Expansion Summit” in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 28 - 29, 2013. No wonder, countries like Indonesia, Malaysia or Vietnam have seen double-digit expansion rates over many years. The increasing passenger numbers are bringing many airports to the edge of their capacity and sometimes beyond. The natural reaction to this dynamic development is to enlarge the capacity of existing airports and to build new ones. Ambitious plans to foster the expected growth are being pursued in many South East Asian countries and also in other fast developing regions of the world.