How many terminals are there in Kuala Lumpur International Airport?

There are two terminals, namely the main terminal (KLIA) and the low-cost aviation terminal (LCCT).

Kuala Lumpur International Airport Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is one of the most important international airports in Malaysia, located in Sepang, southern Selangor, about 50 kilometers away from Kuala Lumpur.

This airport was officially opened on June 27th, 1998, replacing the previous Subang International Airport. The slogan of Kuala Lumpur International Airport is "Bring the world to Malaysia and Malaysia to the world".

Kuala Lumpur International Airport is also one of the stopovers of kangaroo route. As British Airways, Austrian Airlines and Qantas have stopped flying at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, only Malaysia Airlines stays at this airport. The airport management company remains optimistic and hopes that British Airways and Qantas can reuse Kuala Lumpur International Airport as a stop on the kangaroo route.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport was designed by Japanese architect Zhang Ji Kurokawa. The concept adopted is "airport in the forest, forest in the airport". The airport is surrounded by green trees, and there is an outdoor room in the center of the airport satellite building. The outdoor scenery is tropical rain forest. The airport signs are written in English, Malay, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. In addition, the airport also broadcasts airport information and announcements in English, Malay, Chinese and Japanese. Malaysia Airport Group is 40% owned by the Malaysian government and owns 39 airports, including Kuala Lumpur Airport.

1990 Historically, Subang International Airport has been unable to accommodate the increasing number of tourists in the future, so the Malaysian government and Dr. Dun Mahadi, then Prime Minister of Malaysia, as the driving force behind the plan, decided to build a new airport to replace Subang International Airport. In addition, Malaysia has just implemented a plan called Multimedia Super Corridor, and the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport has become an important part of the Multimedia Super Corridor.

When the government announced the plan, it met with opposition from many sides. There are many reasons for opposition. For example, the new airport will be 70 kilometers away from downtown Kuala Lumpur, which is very inconvenient. The whole plan is very expensive and so on. In addition, some people think that Subang International Airport still has room for expansion and there is no need to build a new airport. When the project started construction, Subang International Airport was building the third terminal, which was put into use on February 20 10. In addition, 1995 also carried out maintenance and upgrading of the second passenger terminal building.

After several years of planning, Kuala Lumpur International Airport finally officially started operation on June 27th, 1998, one week ahead of the newly-built Hong Kong International Airport. At the beginning of the opening of the airport, there was chaos. The computer in the passenger terminal was broken, but the flight information could not be displayed. There was a problem with baggage delivery for more than five hours.

When the airport was put into use, it was also the recovery period of the Asian financial turmoil, so few people arrived at this airport and the airports in the region, resulting in the performance deficit of airlines. As a result, several airlines also stopped flying to Kuala Lumpur, such as All Nippon Airways, British Airways, Qantas and Northwest Airlines.

In March 2006, AirAsia's low-cost passenger terminal began to open. In order to cope with more and more passengers, this passenger terminal is specially built for low-cost airline AirAsia, so as to achieve the purpose of "cheapness", so that passengers of low-cost airlines only need to pay cheap airport taxes.

Future development According to Malaysia's ninth plan, the government will allocate funds to build a new satellite passenger station and a new runway to accommodate the increasing number of passengers. But all this is still planned.

By 2020, an ambitious year for Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur International Airport will have two passenger terminals and four satellite terminals (that is, two main passenger terminals and two satellite terminals each). When the whole airport develops according to the grand blueprint, Kuala Lumpur International Airport will accommodate 654.38 billion passengers every year. In addition, airport users can also enjoy golf courses, hiking trails, theme parks, wetlands and other services around the airport.

Although the low-cost passenger terminal has only been put into use for one year, it has reached its limit, and the Malaysian government has also approved funding to upgrade and widen the low-cost passenger terminal.

The airport management also suggested to the Cabinet that the low-cost air passenger station should pivot between the first passenger station and the satellite passenger station A, because the existing low-cost passenger station is only temporary.