The plans provide details of a proposal for the one-year renovation of Southwest Airport. Overall, the main new features will be increasing the number of gates together with the addition of a range of new facilities.
Entrance to the departure and arrival sections will largely go unaltered, although additional doors will be installed in both. At present, departures has just a check-in desk and a café, but the proposal is to move the check-in from the left to the right to accommodate a bag drop area and relocate the café to the left of the main entrance. Arrivals will also see a café added as well as an ATM and a car hire business. To establish the car hire business, an extension will be built to provide adequate space.
There will be no changes to airport security, passport control, and customs. Several shops, however, will be opened in the departure zone, located on the left upon entering from security.
By far the greatest proposed development involves building two corridors to the departure gates, which will be more than doubled from the current eight to eighteen and replacing the existing walkway with a sky train.
