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Published on Thursday,
January 12, 2023
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
To
increase the capacity of operations
at the
Daniel Oduber-Quirós International
Airport (LIR), known
as Guanacaste airport, this year the
expansion works of the landing strip
will begin, the Ministry of
Public Transports announced. According
to the ministry, the cost
of the work is established at $100
million. Half of the cost is covered
with funds from the central
government, 40% is covered with a
budget from the Institute of Tourism
and the remaining 10% will be covered
with a loan provided by an
international bank. The work,
which will be carried out in four
phases, is scheduled to conclude in
2025. In the
first phase of the plan, facilities
will be built for the collection of
waste and the reconstruction of the
airport platform. In the second phase,
a contingency runway will be built and
improvements will be made to the
current taxiway. In the third phase,
an expansion of runway #7-25 will be
built. And in the last phase, the last
repair work will be done at the
airport. LIR
operates 16 international airlines
that offer flights to 20 destinations
around the world.
The expansion of the runway is part of some improvements that the airport has announced. This week, passengers can now access the recently inaugurated pet zone.
Last week, the airport inaugurated a movement energy phone charging center. They installed stationary bicycles in the boarding halls where passengers could produce electricity while waiting for their flight.
Just last year, over 1.3 million tourists visited Costa Rica.
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