Narita International Airport Update
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Hideharu Miyamoto:For Narita Airport, we are very concerned for the expansion of the network, especially for the Asian region, because the market in this region is growing very fast. To capture the market, the low-cost carrier has a very important role. of this industry. So for Narita Airport, we have the Japan-based low-cost carriers started operation in 2012, and this opportunity is very important for Narita Airport to exchange the experiences and opinions to how we can accommodate new carriers to Narita Airport. We have opened Terminal 3, which is dedicated for the Dedicated Terminal 3 is designed for the low-cost carriers, which opened in April 2015. It's been one year. I have the passenger— number of passengers growing very fast, which reached more than 6 million last year. So the capacity itself is 7.5 million passengers. Especially in the peak time, the congestion is getting to be a very big issue for the airport. So we're now making discussions with airlines to how we can solve these problems, and also we are now studying how we can expand the facility itself. Biggest difference is that the low-cost carriers, they have their very own business model. And especially they don't want to use the jetways, the boarding bridges, and also they don't need the airline lounges sort of facilities. And also they like to operate as simple as possible. In the meantime, you know, we handle the many flights at the same time, so we installed a very sophisticated baggage handling system. But in Terminal 3, we are making a very simple baggage system in the terminal, so make it cost lower as possible. For the full-size, the current terminal, we are very considering about the Expansion of transit passengers, especially we have the many routes to North America, and we are very important to the increasing the passengers traveling to Asian region to North America. So very important thing is how we can accommodate passengers transiting at the Narita Airport. So we try to make Waiting time shorter as possible when they are transiting at the airport. Also, we provide some special service to the transit passengers, like, well, some passengers have plenty of time during the waiting for the next flight, so we provide a transit tour to the customers, and also we provide the other special service to the passengers. And what about the international passengers? Passengers waiting for the next flight.
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