Plans for floating airport in north Bali

balinews

While the central government has suspended a land reclamation project in the Jakarta Bay, another controversial project is underway in Bali. An artificial island measuring 1,400 hectares is to be created in waters off Bali’s northern coast for a new airport. Airport Kinesis Financial and Transportation Consulting, the company designing the project, presented the construction plan to the Bali Administration on Thursday. I Made Mangku from Airport Kinesis Indonesia said the airport would be built in waters near Kubu Tambahan in Buleleng regency. Mangku said 264 hectares of the 1,400 hectare project would be reclaimed land, while the remainder would be built as a floating structure. “Since the waters reach around 500 meters in depth, we cannot reclaim the area. So, we have decided to build a floating area,” Mangku said, adding that the reclaimed part would be used as a buffer for the floating part. The new airport area is designed to include hotels, a sports center, lakes, water parks and other facilities. The airport itself will have two runaways that can accommodate all aircraft types, according to the plan. Measuring 7,200 meters in length each, the runways will be more than twice as long as the one at Ngurah Rai International Airport in southern Bali, which is 3,000 meters long. “We’ve designed the airport to accommodate more commercial aircraft, so that we can achieve three times as many flights and passengers as Ngurah Rai airport,” Mangku said. Floating airport to be built in northern Bali - The Jakarta Post

JohnnyCool

[QUOTE]Mangku said he expected the groundbreaking for the project to take place on Aug. 28, but admitted that the company had yet to file all the paperwork to get a recommendation from the Buleleng Administration.[/QUOTE] This nonsense has been going on for years. So, the "authorities" want to do a "balancing act" to even out the debacle in the South by creating a bigger one in the North? Yeah - that will work, won't it? Just like the proposed railway around Bali. Whatever happened to that brain fart?

modelt1826

When the airport is not in use or bad weather they have the cruise terminal in the north to berth it in as thats free all year round