Orotina International Airport (cost, people, move, cons)
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Costa Rica is expected to break ground on an international airport in Orotina. It will be designed to accommodate wide body jets including the 777, 787, the Airbus A340 and perhaps the A380 (sounds too ambitious). The plan is for it to be a hub for Central America and a gateway to South America for trips originating in the US, Canada, Europe and even Asia. They expect it to be completed by 2025, but the highway from San Jose to Orotina was completed over 20 years behind schedule so who knows?
Costa Rica is expected to break ground on an international airport in Orotina. It will be designed to accommodate wide body jets including the 777, 787, the Airbus A340 and perhaps the A380 (sounds too ambitious). The plan is for it to be a hub for Central America and a gateway to South America for trips originating in the US, Canada, Europe and even Asia. They expect it to be completed by 2025, but the highway from San Jose to Orotina was completed over 20 years behind schedule so who knows?
We already have a hub of the Americas and it is Tocumen International Airport. It is the largest, most modern, the one which moves more passangers per year and used by many more airline companies. It is being renovated and a new terminal with a new landingstrip is being built which is supposed to be completed by 2018. We are planning on moving 38 million people by 2018. Btw we already recieve those wide body planes you have mentioned.
Yes, I have flown through there on several occasions. That does not mean that Costa Rica is not going to try to compete. They are already receiving 800,000 more tourists annually than Panama, so they have that going for them.
Yes, I have flown through there on several occasions. That does not mean that Costa Rica is not going to try to compete. They are already receiving 800,000 more tourists annually than Panama, so they have that going for them.
Indeed, they can try to compete, but we are talking about 2025 against 2018, so they are really behind. Not only that, but it takes forever to build something in CR because of their burocracy, whereas in Pma, we build almost immediately.
They don´t receive 800,000 more tourists, the number is lower, probably 300,000.
They have always tried to compete with Pma, not only in the airport, but now, they are building a new port in Limon, which they say that is going to be the largest one in Latinamerica, but, Pma has already the two largest and most important of Latam and PCC is already working on the construction of a super megaport in the Pacific, so I think it is going to be very tough for them to compete with us, besides that, they don´t have the experience that we have when it comes to moving cargo from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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