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At the airport Panama new terminal opens, which will have an additional capacity of 10 million passengers per year. Press photos Tocumen Airport.
The Hub of the Americas follow a growth, which was more than necessary to support the large operation of its main operator Copa Airlines, and the past 29 April, before authorities and guests, the Terminal was inaugurated permanently and definitively 2 from Tocumen International Airport serving Panama City.
With the inauguration of what were the first 5 Boarding gates, gradually the rest of a total of 20 sleeves and 8 remote locations with the potential to receive aircraft of different sizes and tonnage the airport enters a new stage of its growth and position as one of the main Latin America hub.
Too, a new luggage transport system was inaugurated with the capacity to transport more than 6.500 bags per hour, that will allow effective connection between flights arriving at the Terminal 1 or to Terminal 2 and keep the times between international flights.
In a building space of more than 116.000 square meters is located the new terminal that added to the Terminal 1 add up to a total of 57 boarding gates and 8 remote. The One Stop Security system was implemented – OSS that allows to improve operational efficiency, optimizing security resources under ICAO standards according to a Validation Process between States.
With this construction, the airport is now considered the largest in the region..
During the 2018 this airport was considered the most punctual medium-sized terminal in the world under parameters OTP.
More of 6.000 workers were responsible for the construction that began in the year 2012 and that it suffered several delays during its process.
with the first 5 Terminal gates 2 can be processed 58 additional flights and more than 6 thousand passengers.
In the last decade by the Panama Airport, the number of passengers has quadrupled, reaching operating limits, so the expansion was necessary to maintain this growth hand in hand with the arrival of new European airlines.
a hallway 172 meters long connects the Terminal 1 with the 2, below this runs the interconnected case system.
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