Construction of Singapore’s Changi Airport T5 set for 2025
Work to construct a fifth terminal at Singapore’s Changi Airport will commence in the first half of 2025, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has confirmed.
Speaking at a dinner celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), the Minister said that “Singapore must sharpen its competitive edge amid intensifying competition in the air transport sector,” reported the Straits Times. Referencing the rapid expansion across many airlines, “we cannot rest on our laurels,” he stated.
In a press release from March 2024, the airport had previously indicated that construction of the fifth terminal would begin in 2025. With travel demand on the upwards trend, “Changi Airport will continue to invest to keep its fundamentals strong and to remain attractive as an air hub,” the statement added.
The 1,080 hectacre expansion project – the airport’s largest such endeavour to date -is undertaken by the Changi Airport Group, the CAAS and the Ministry of Transport.
The T5 project is part of a larger Changi East development that includes a three-runway system and supporting infrastructure, providing the airport with an additional handling capacity of 50 million passengers a year in its initial phase. Cargo facilities currently located at the Changi Airfreight Centrewill also be expanded to the Changi East Industrial Zone, part of the new development.
Passenger traffic at the existing airport “continued to grow steadily, gaining momentum in the last quarter of FY 2023/24 to surpass pre-covid levels,” with passenger movements for the full financial year reaching 62.5 million.
The existing airport has handled around 38.7 million passenger and 1.14 million airfreight movements so far this year (as of August 2024).
