ADR, the company that manages Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, has renovated Terminal 3 at a cost pf over €250 million.
The Terminal is for non-Schengen flights
The renovation works are expected to ensure an increase of more than 30% in passenger capacity. Completed in time for the summer season's traffic peaks, they are also aimed at improving the operational efficiency and travel experience for the millions of passengers on non-Schengen flights that now transit the airport, while meeting the highest standards of security and technological innovation.
The overall area is as big as six football pitches
The upgrading of Terminal 3, preceded by the complete restyling of the façade, which restored its original architectural values of visual permeability and natural light, was carried out while guaranteeing the airport's operational continuity over the four years of the works. It involved an area spread over three levels, on a total of 41,000 square metres, comparable in size to about six football pitches.
More check-in islands and baggage belts
A total of six check-in islands were renovated with 150 new counters, bringing the infrastructure to a total of 248 counters, 60 of which can be used by passengers autonomously. The number of baggage belts was increased from nine to 14, with a doubling of the overall length from about 400 metres to 800 metres, thus guaranteeing greater capacity and flexibility for baggage handling while the border areas were upgraded for transit flights.
A further €9 billion will go into new developments
“This work on Terminal 3 is part of the medium-long term infrastructural enhancement strategy that, over the last ten years, has led us to invest, on Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, about €3 billion,- said ADR’s CEO Marco Troncone. -It is a step that has projected Rome’s airport into the world elite in terms of service quality, and which has generated a formidable economic and employment spin-off. The next step will be the launching of the new long-term development plan with an additional €9 billion of investments.”
