The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) declared inadmissible the request for Lima Airport Partners (LAP) which proposed to update the Airport Development Master Plan, which modified the delivery of the Jorge Chávez International Airport (AIJCH) terminal for 2035 and no longer for 2025 as agreed in principle.
In this way, having been rejected in the second instance (the first was in May of this year), LAP has indicated that it is analyzing what actions they will take according to what is established in the concession contract.
Meanwhile, this MTC decision has been welcomed by the unions and users that operate in the AIJCH, who indicate that the LAP proposal does not represent any technical or additional benefit for airport users (passengers, airlines and other companies that provide services). ). What’s more, They stated that this would further delay the necessary expansion of the country’s main international airport.
Carlos Gutierrez, spokesperson for the Association of International Air Transport Companies (AETAI), told La República that, since there is already a resolution, LAP must comply with its commitments signed in the concession contract, that is, deliver the expansion of the Jorge Chávez Airport in 2025 and in a single phase.
“In the proposal that the airport has raised, there are no benefits for intermediate and final users, who are passengers, importers and exporters of cargo,” added Gutiérrez.
For its part, LAP indicated that it will deliver the new airport infrastructure in 2022 (second runway, new control tower and others) and a new passenger terminal in 2025.
It is important to mention that LAP proposed that the new terminal to be delivered in 2025 have an area of more than 160,000 square meters, and then new extensions would be carried out that will begin in 2028 and 2035.
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Review. The president of Indecopi, Julián Palacín Gutiérrez, regretted that LAP is building an air terminal for 18 million passengers and not for 35 million passengers as had been announced.
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