GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) â Guyana has given a Chinese company a $138 million contract to build a new airport terminal and lengthen the runway at the country's principal airport.
The Beijing-based China Harbor Engineering Company is to extend the main runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport by more than 3,200 feet (1,000 meters). The deal was announced Friday by the government news agency.
The current 7,400-foot (2,255-meter) runway cannot accommodate fully loaded jumbo jets. A Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft that landed late on the runway on July 20 and crashed through a fence, breaking in two. No one died.
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The Beijing-based China Harbor Engineering Company is to extend the main runway at Cheddi Jagan International Airport by more than 3,200 feet (1,000 meters). The deal was announced Friday by the government news agency.
The current 7,400-foot (2,255-meter) runway cannot accommodate fully loaded jumbo jets. A Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft that landed late on the runway on July 20 and crashed through a fence, breaking in two. No one died.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press
http://travel.usatoday.com/fli...a-airport/51331546/1
Yes 8 jetways needed for jumbos arriving from Tokyo and Hong Kong and Frankfurt. 