Split Airport - Expansion Plans

Expansion Plans

In the last few years the summer peak in airport activity called for an expansion of the airport capacity. Starting in autumn 2009. and running through the year 2014, major overhaul works will be conducted at Split. When all of the expansion is done, Resnik will have an expanded terminal, with 4 jetways. A new, larger apron will be built, because the present one is insufficient.

In September 2011. the new airport ramp was opened. The cost of this investment was 13 million euro, and it includes 34,000m² of new parking space for the airplanes, as well as a large support space on the lower level. This level is actually a ground level, and the airplanes are parked on the roof of the structure. The lower level houses numerous warehouses, workshops, offices and other objects that will support the new 40 million euro terminal building that will be built next to it.

Expansion of Split Airport will happen in 3 phases.

• Phase One, 2009–2011
  • Expansion of the airport ramp by 34,000 m²
  • Purchase of the nearby land, needed for construction
• Phase Two, 2012–2014
  • Construction of a new airport terminal, connected to the old one, increasing the capacity to 2 million passengers
  • Adding a new taxiway, parallel to the runway
  • Repaving and adding concrete "shoulders" to the runway
• Phase Three (when the need arrives)
  • Further expansion of the terminal and addition of four jetways
  • Further expansion of the apron, to accommodate the new terminal