Sharjah Airport Authority completes $10.9m East Expansion project

Sharjah Airport Authority completes $10.9m East Expansion project

The Sharjah Airport Authority (SAA) has completed work on the $10.9m (AED40m) East Expansion project, with the 4,000m2 integrated building being opened by the authority.The project comes with the authority's comprehensive expansion plan to raise the airport's capacity to 20 million passengers by 2025.During the inauguration of the airport's new facilities Ali Salim Al Midfa, chairman of SAA, was joined by Sheikh Khalid bin Issam Al Qassimi, chairman of the Department of Civil Aviation; Khalid Jasim Al Midfa, chairman of Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority; Brigadier General Abdullah Mubarak bin Amer, deputy commander-in-chief of Sharjah Police; Brigadier Arif Mohammed Al Shamsi, executive director of General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Sharjah; Adel Ali, CEO of Air Arabia Group, and