Greenfield airport

A greenfield airport is an aviation facility with greenfield project characteristics. The designation reflects certain environmental qualities (using previously undeveloped or empty greenfield land, for example) and commissioning, planning and construction processes that are generally carried out from scratch. While a green field in nature is defined as a wide expanse of natural land (meadow, prairie, grassland), here greenfield denotes that a project lacks any constraints imposed upon it by prior work or existing infrastructure. (A brownfield, on the other hand, remodels or improves upon existing facilities.) Such projects can be highly coveted by engineers as no time must be allotted for demolition of unneeded buildings, etc. constructed in developed areas for the development of the particular place

Modern greenfield airports are under construction in Beijing, Istanbul, Sydney and Chennai. Over the next two decades, the number of airports is expected to increase from 133 to 500. Of these, 367 are slated to be greenfield airports.

Partial list of greenfield airports

Some of the world's greenfield airports opened since 1995. (Many smaller airports are also under development or proposed, especially in China, India and the Philippines.)

• Al Maktoum International Airport (opened June 2010) – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Beijing Daxing International Airport (opened September 2019) - in Langfang, Hebei, China
• Berlin Brandenburg Airport (being built next to Berlin Schönefeld Airport; construction began in 2006; opened October 2020) – in Berlin, Germany
• Bhogapuram Airport (expected in 2024/2025) - near Visakhapatnam, India
• Chennai Greenfield International Airport (announced in August 2022; opening expected in 2027/2028) - Parandur, Kanchipuram, Near Chennai, India
• Chengdu Tianfu International Airport, (construction began in May 2016; opened June 2021) – in Chengdu, China
• Cochin International Airport (opened June 1999) - near Kochi, India
• Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport (construction began in 2011; opening in 2024) – in Dalian, China
• Hamad International Airport (opened May 2014) – Doha, Qatar
• Hanthawaddy International Airport - Bago, Myanmar
• Islamabad International Airport (opened May 2018) - near Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan
• Istanbul Airport (opened in October 2018) - Istanbul, Turkey
• Itanagar Airport (opened December 2022) - in Hollongi, Arunachal Pradesh, India
• Kannur International Airport (opened December 2018) - in Kerala, India
• Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport (opened September 2013) - Andal, West Bengal, India
• Kempegowda International Airport (opened May 2008) - near Bangalore, Karnataka, India
• Manohar International Airport (opened January 2023) - in Mopa, Goa, India
• Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (opened March 2013) - near Hambantota, Sri Lanka
• Navi Mumbai International Airport (construction began in 2017; opening expected in 2024) – in Mumbai, India
• New International Airport for Mexico City, (construction began in 2016; project cancelled in 2018) – in Mexico City, Mexico
• New Gwadar International Airport, (expected opening in March 2024) - in Gwadar, Pakistan
• Noida International Airport, (construction began in June 2022; opening (Phase - 1) in 2024) - in Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Near Delhi NCR, India
• Pakyong Airport (opened October 2018) - near Gangtok, Sikkim, India
• Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport (construction began in 2016; opened August 2021) – in Qingdao, China
• Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (opened March 2008) - near Hyderabad, India
• Rajkot Greenfield Airport (under construction; groundbreaking October 2017; opening in 2023) - near Hirasar in Gujarat, India
• Shirdi Airport (opened in October 2017) - near Shirdi ,India
• Techo Takhmao International Airport - near Phnom Penh, Cambodia (under construction, began 2019; opening expected 2025)
• Western Sydney Airport (construction begins late 2018; opening expected 2026) - in Badgerys Creek, Australia
• Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport, (reclamation began in 2013, construction is expected to begin in May 2020; opening is expected in 2025) – in Xiamen, China

See also

• Greenfield project
• Greenfield land
• Brownfield land

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