Passenger Terminal
A new passenger Terminal was inaugurated on 12 March 2013, it will be fully operational in May 2013. The structure of the New Airport Terminal is designed after the "Traveller's palm", a tropical plant that grows on Mauritius, it is connected to the existing terminal and have a capacity of 4 million passengers. The terminal which cost US$300 million is in line with the “Maurice Ile Durable” concept, the environmental and ecological aspect was taken into consideration, some of them include the use of solar energy collected by photovoltaic cells, recovering of rain water and integrating nature to the heart of the building, the facades are thermo-insulated to reduce heat. It covers an area of 57,000 square meters and is equipped with facilities for at least five boarding gates, including a compatible host Airbus A380, check-in desks for departing passengers, immigration counters, carousels for receipt of baggage of passengers arriving and five bridges telescopic boarding and disembarking passengers.
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