The airport extension race in Asia is heated from Singapore Changa T5

Asia should see a tourist boom, and countries in the region are preparing for the use of this splash.

Changue Singapore Airport crashed on the fifth terminal on Wednesday, which is expected to run in the mid-2030s.

The new terminal, which is located on the land of 1080 hectares, is almost twice the size of the existing Changue airport.

This will allow the airport to process 140 million passengers a year with its current capacity of 90 million passengers. Chang, who was recently awarded the “Best Airport in the World” by Skytrax in 2025 for the 13th time, in 2024 he greeted 67.7 million passengers.

Airports that can handle more than 100 million passengers annually are classified as mega -aeroportes and three of the 10 existing ones are in Asia, The Airport Instrument Airport International reports. They are in Beijing, Tokyo and Shanghai.

ACI projects that air travel will grow by almost 7% over the next 25 years. In order to cope with the demand, airports in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East are ready to transfer extensive development, with combination investments of $ 240 billion for modernizing existing facilities and construction of new airports between 2025 and 2035.

Speaking at the innovative event, Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said the decision to build a terminal 5 was because “in the long run air trips are on an increasing trajectory, and the bulk will take place here in the Asia-Pacific region.”

Wong also said that with the Terminal 5 Changi will seek to contact 200 cities, which is above the current 170 city links he has now.

“(Changue) linked our small island nation with the world and brought the world to Singapore. And this connection raised our growth as an air center, moving industries such as aerospace and logistics,” said Wong, emphasizing that the aviation ecosystem is now making 5% of Singapore GDP.

In November, the Hong Kong International Airport ordered the third runway and expands the terminal of the airport 2. The purpose of the airport, he said should serve 120 million passengers and process 10 million tons of cargo annually since 2035.

Open Airport Suwarnabhumi Bangkok The third take -off -jacket in September 2024, raising the airport capabilities to more flights after completing A New satellite terminal A year earlier.

Thai Airport operator too revealed further East expansion is planned to increase the airport power by 2027.

In South Korea, Seoul Inhchon International Airport In December, the “phase 4” expanded, which allowed it to process the annual passenger capacity of up to 106 million out of 77 million, and make it the third largest airport in the world.

Thomas Pellegrin, leader of the transport, hospitality and services sector from Deloitte Soutast Asia, said CNBC that Asia became a “barcentr” of air travel growth after the Covid-19 pandemic.

This increase in air trips is associated with the extension of the middle class, the tendency to the flight increases faster than the increase in revenue, as well as the high level of urbanization in the region that binds people to air transport infrastructure, he noted.

“The regional increase in passenger demand is now projected to 7.9% in the near future and 5.1% in the long run, which is the highest worldwide and much higher than permanent markets,” Pellegrin added.

This means that Asian airports will need to accommodate about twice as many passengers and planes by 2043, creating a huge pressure on the existing infrastructure, he said.

Terminal 5 will also join the Singapore plan Increase income from tourism in the city-state From a record 29.8 billion dollars in 2024 to $ 47 billion, $ 47 billion in the next 15 years.

Tourism 2040 strategy focuses on increasing demand from two different groups – business and stop travelers, Grace Fu, Minister of Sustainability and Singapore, said in April.

In particular, officials are aimed at triple income from tourism from business travels attending meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions, Fu said.

According to the CEO of the Singapore Tourism Council Melissa Ow, passengers of transit and transfer currently make up a third of the total Changa airport.

Terminal 5, as well as widespread development of Changi East – which also includes the third runway and the industrial zone – will allow Singapore to maintain and develop market share as a air node, increase connection and consolidate Conggies as the best airport in the world.

“All these effects are combined to give Singapore a negative” soft power “internationally.