Improvements in Carriel Sur will allow it to receive a greater number of international flights
After completing the first stage of repairs, authorities announced work on the central runway of the air terminal. Investment exceeds $8.200 million.
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With the aim of making Carriel Sur an alternative for international flights and cargo shipments to other regions and abroad , improvements have been made to the airport terminal since October of last year. The goal is for it to meet the same standards as the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in the Metropolitan Region.
In that regard, the Director of Airports of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), Alejandro Castro, together with the Director of the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (Dgac) in Carriel Sur, Daniel Aravena, announced yesterday the start of works on the central runway of the facility, which seeks to improve safety levels to receive a greater number of flights, by March 2022.
“This is a key and strategic terminal for the Region and, in addition, it is the main alternative to the Santiago airport, since its infrastructure and operating conditions allow for direct international flights , but that also requires the infrastructure standards of an international airport and that is what we are doing,” Castro explained.
Work in stages
The second stage, announced by the authorities and exceeding $8.200 billion, will complement what has already been done on the alpha runway of the regional airport, which is already completed.
“This significant investment aims to completely reconstruct the asphalt pavement on Taxiway Charlie, creating a new geometry that complies with current regulations . The work has been carried out in stages to avoid disrupting the airport's operations,” Castro explained.
During the first stage, approximately 64% of the airport's total movement area was addressed, including milling and resurfacing of the alpha runway , as well as margins along the entire roadway and other pavement repairs on the other runways.
The above, as part of the project called “Normalization and Conservation of the Carriel Sur Airport Movement Area”, executed by the Directorate of Airports of the MOP and which represented an investment of close to $8.000 billion.
ILS 3 outage
The work that the Airports Directorate will carry out in Carriel Sur, “will interrupt the Instrument Landing System (ILS 3), since the intervention on the main runway will affect its operation , which is expected to last until March of next year, or earlier,” Aravena explained.
For his part, the regional secretary of Public Works, Víctor Reinoso, indicated that “the conservation and standardization is fundamental and will allow us to boost the economic development of the Region , generating infrastructure that will provide the conditions to transform Biobío into a logistics platform.”
He added that the new improvements are part of the "Step by Step Plan Chile is Recovering", carried out by the government to reactivate the economy, after the Covid-19 pandemic.
