Costa Rica’s San Jose airport to become a major hub
Houston Airport System Development Corporation (HASDC), the fourth largest airport system in the US and recently appointed to be the administrator of the San Jose airport for the next 25 years, is on negotiations with a regional airline to make the San Jose airport into a major hub.
The airport construction is 4 weeks ahead of schedule and is rolling out a new information system that will enable the Government to know on real time, the number of passengers passing
The information was confirmed Jeffrey Scheferman, president of HASDC and his partner, José Renato de Camargo, from the Brazilian company Andrade Gutierrez Grants (AGC).
According Scheferman, the San Jose airport will also serve to facilitate connections from Costa Rica to other destinations.
On the continent Panama is a hub for COPA Airlines, El Salvador is a hub for TACA and Houston, Texas is the hub for Continental.
In two weeks the airport will be connected to the Civil Aviation Technical Council, allowing government entities to have information in “real time” of passengers entering and leaving the country. Scheferman said that in this way, the government would know every day how much people spend.
This will help HASDC to identify opportunities to open new direct routes from US or elsewhere, said Camargo.
Now, the airport serves 2 million passengers a year, but the consortium aims to attract more direct routes and hub.
Source: La Nacion
