How many airports are being built

The traffic in the sky is increasing. The boom in tourism has caused 350 new airports to be constructed in the Asia-Pacific region. China alone is looking to build 100 new airports as their middle class grows. A South China Morning Post article reported that there are ever-growing queues at immigration and overflowing baggage carousels. What is more the flight delays are proving to be expensive. Beijing’s new airport will have 7 runways with the capacity to handle 100 million passengers a year.

The total investment cost of the new airports is estimated at more than US$100 billion. India is planning to spend US$ 60 billion on constructing 100 new airports over the next 15 to 20 years.

There is an article on Wikipedia titled “List of airports under construction”. Fascinatingly, there aren’t many airports listed in this topic. The aviation space keeps evolving. It must be kept in mind that the current Melbourne international airport came about as a result of the older one not being able to keep pace with the growing tourist arrivals and departures during the 1960s. Tullamarine was a rural area in the 1950s and now it has grown into an urban area in its own right.