changi airport latest development is in the new state of the art terminal 3 is built to in crease passenger handling capability by up to 25 million terminal 3 development included the entire airport structure form landside to screening and air side the expansion costs around us 1.24 million.
changi airport have positioned itself as the main entry point into south-east asia facilitating incoming traffic form europe australia the middle east and northamerica a part form this the airport have also taken advantage of singapore strategic location to provide a good transit point form aircarft flying the kangaroo route form australia to europe as well as form northamerica to australia.
this route has proven to be very profitable for a number of airlines and changi airport faces direct competition from bangkok suvarnabhumiairport and kuala lumpur international airport to serve as a stopover.
the development of terminal 3 also has an added purpose with is to be the fist operational terminal specifically built to service the gigantic airbus a380 aircarft bigger-than-normal baggage-han-dling equipment and carousels were put in place to ensure fast passenger flow in dadition to a380-specific ground-handling equipment.
changi airport is also investing in a new runway surveillance system to detect foreign objects on the runway the system costing about us 8.5 million is likely to be installed in ther near future as changi primes itself to be the landing airport in the region in terms of safety and traffic