The Business Times Singapore

Published April 25, 2007

Seletar Airport extending runway to 1,800m

Seletar Airport will soon become more attractive to low-cost carriers looking for a second base. Its runway will be extended from 1,200 metres to 1,800 metres, so fully-laden Boeing 737s, 757s and Airbus A320s can land. The runway extension is the latest move by JTC and the Economic Development Board in a $60 million plan to make Seletar Aerospace Park a major aerospace centre by 2018. Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang said the Seletar Airport runway will be extended, with additional upgrading works done for the apron, taxiway, power network, ATC communications system and terminal building. The project is on track to begin site works from the second half of 2007.

On completion of Seletar's makeover, the park will house dozens of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) specialists, component and equipment makers, training centres and businesses such as private air transport operators. Singapore is Asia's biggest single MRO centre and and accounts for about a quarter of all Asian MRO activity.