CONVERGENCE NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2016
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What's<br />
C onverging<br />
Reimagining Airports<br />
Documentary on klia2 screened in conjunction<br />
with Malaysia Day celebrations<br />
Malaysia Airports celebrated the nation's 53rd Malaysia Day<br />
by showing its contribution to nation building via a sneak<br />
preview of Reimagining Airports – a documentary on the<br />
making of klia2.<br />
The preview was held at Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC)<br />
Alamanda Putrajaya on September 15 and attended by<br />
Malaysia Airports' Chairman, Tan Sri Datuk Sri Dr Wan Abdul<br />
Aziz Wan Abdullah and Managing Director, Datuk Badlisham<br />
Ghazali.<br />
In his opening remarks, Badlisham said, since its opening on<br />
2 May 2014, klia2 has been regarded as one of the nation's<br />
iconic landmarks and the almost two-hour long documentary<br />
was a celebration of that.<br />
"In its two years of operations, klia2 has already experienced<br />
steady growth – its passenger traffic numbers for 2015, at 26<br />
million, was 9% more than that of 2014."<br />
He also said<br />
klia2, which<br />
was built for<br />
a capacity<br />
of 45 million<br />
passengers<br />
per annum,<br />
recorded 12%<br />
more growth in the first half of this year when compared to<br />
the same period last year.<br />
He said klia2 has also stimulated its own economic growth.<br />
"For its construction, a total of 61 packages had been awarded<br />
to 114 companies to fulfil this aim. The abundance of retail<br />
space in klia2 has also provided business and job opportunities<br />
to more than 100,000 people. On top of that, 36% of the<br />
retail space in klia2 is occupied by Bumiputera entrepreneurs<br />
– higher than any downtown shopping malls. By the end of<br />
<strong>2016</strong>, this number would reach 40%."<br />
Badlisham added that the terminal was already larger than<br />
some major airports around the world and is expected to bring<br />
30 million passenger traffic numbers in 2025 and will function<br />
at its full passenger traffic capacity by 2035.<br />
The documentary featured the team and crew members<br />
responsible in building the RM4 billion terminal with then<br />
Malaysia Airports Managing Director, Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad,<br />
spearheading the group.<br />
Viewers were enlightened on several key features regarding<br />
klia2 which included the terminal having the tallest control<br />
tower in the world, being one of three airports in the world<br />
to have a sky bridge which allows passengers a stunning view<br />
of the airside, possessing three runways and finally being the<br />
largest low cost carrier terminal in the world.<br />
The klia2 documentary ticket stub<br />
Viewers watching the klia2 documentary<br />
Malaysia Airports' Managing Director, Datuk Badlisham Ghazali (right) and Chairman, Tan Sri<br />
Datuk Sri Dr Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Abdullah<br />
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