Important milestone in the expansion project to be marked

Thursday 30th of May, marks the biggest milestone in the expansion project at Oslo Airport, ahead of its completion in 2017.

Five gates in the terminal will be closed, domestic flights will be rerouted, new taxiways and remote aprons will be open for aircraft. For our passengers, this will mean an increase in use of buses leading up to 2017, especially for international flights, but travel will otherwise be as before.

Soon halfway in the construction project

“This is the biggest milestone thus far in the expansion project, and we’ve actually now completed 40 per cent of the construction work,” says Managing Director of Oslo Airport, Nic Nilsen.

On Thursday, the new taxiways will open due to the commencement of the construction of the North Pier. In addition, five existing gates will close, (30, 32, 34 and 36) to make room for the construction work. This means that passengers on international flights will experience more bussing to these remote aprons.

“There will be more bussing leading up to the opening in 2017, and because of this, we have expanded our bus lounge in the International Terminal, which we hope passengers will enjoy. More bussing is a temporary consequence of the expansion, and we ask passengers to be understanding of this during the construction period,” Nilsen says.

New security lanes

In June three new security lanes will open including a separate family security lane, which is under trial. This is done to reduce queuing and to provide passengers with the best possible experience when travelling through Oslo Airport.

“We continuously work to provide our customers with the best possible service, and I am therefore very pleased to be able to open our new security lanes before the summer travel season starts. We believe the family security lane will be very popular,” Nilsen says.

In addition to the new security lanes and the new airside, a new customs lane will also open. In recent weeks there has been construction activity in the customs area in the arrivals hall, but this will soon be completed and the new customs lane will be ready.

The transition in late May/early June could cause some minor restrictions on the number of arrivals per hour, but is not expected to affect passengers.

Oslo Airport is expanding and in 2017 a new pier with 21 aprons and a new baggage system will open.