Minister Óscar Puente will visit Córdoba to inaugurate the new airport terminalJOSÉ LUIS ROCA
HeMinister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puentewill visit Córdoba next Monday July 1 on the occasion of the inauguration of the expansion of the terminal city airport. It will be the first time that Puente visits Córdoba as a minister and It will do so in the week in which regular airline flights resume at the Córdoba aerodome..
The Minister of Transport will be accompanied by the president of Aena, Maurici Lucena, as well as a wide representation of institutional representatives of the city. Puente’s visit also coincides with the return of the flight from Basel that departed this Monday, June 24. (but he had to do it from Seville).
The new terminal
The main reason for Óscar Puente’s visit will be the full operation of the new Córdoba airport terminal. Aena has invested 2.2 million euros in a new 1,000 square meter buildingattached to the current terminal, and whose works have been carried out by the Córdoba company Sepisur XXI.
With the work, The boarding and baggage claim halls have more than 350 square meters each., while the departures hall reaches 100 square meters. A new check-in counter (there are a total of three) and additional X-ray equipment (there are two) have been added to the security checkpoint, which also has two automatic boarding pass readers and an area for passengers can be queued before accessing the filter.
Archive image of the airport terminal expansion works.
From Aena they have indicated that “the expansion provides continuity to the reform and modernization undertaken at the terminal in 2022, given the growing interest that has been detected among airlines in operating with the Córdoba destination.” Up to half a dozen companies have requested information about the airport and both Aena and the local institutions in charge of promoting tourism and business in Córdoba work hand in hand to contribute to the launch of new air connections.
Regular flights
In this way, the new building will be available for the arrival of Basel travelers from the charter chartered by Mapatours. Furthermore, a few days later, on July 4, the first commercial flight will depart from Córdoba airport, the one planned by Air Nostrum to Palma de Mallorca.
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