Dubrovnik Airport will have a new look and a new terminal for 2017.The third terminal, Terminal C, is nearing completion and is set to open for the spring of 2017. Speaking to the specialised website EX-YU Aviation the airport’s chief technical officer commented that “Construction is ongoing at Terminal C and soon work will begin on linking buildings A, B and C. The aim is to put the terminal into use by the start of the 2017 summer season. Furthermore, an additional two air bridges are in the process of being installed and should be functioning at the same time.”

He added that the new multi-million Euro terminal will be over 24,000 metres squared and feature eight security lanes, a departure lounge, a premium lounge, restaurants and shops, all in all there will be over 1,000 square metres of commercial space.

The plan, when terminal C is completed, is to combine terminal B and C into one unit, handling both internal and international flights. There will be a total of sixteen gates, fourteen of which will be used for international flights making sure that passenger waiting times are reduced as much as possible. Dubrovnik Airport has seen passenger number steadily rising year-on-year and so far in 2016 the airport has handled 1.9 million passengers.

The current work on terminal C is part of a much larger investment project that will also see work on the runways and aprons; the total cost of the investment is around 274 million Euros.