A greenfield airport is an aviation facility with greenfield project characteristics. The designation reflects certain environmental qualities (using previously undeveloped or empty greenfield land, for example) and commissioning, planning and construction processes that are generally carried out from scratch. While a green field in nature is defined as a wide expanse of natural land (meadow, prairie, grassland), here greenfield denotes that a project lacks any constraints imposed upon it by prior work or existing infrastructure. (A brownfield, on the other hand, remodels or improves upon existing facilities.) Such projects can be highly coveted by engineers as no time must be allotted for demolition of unneeded buildings, etc. constructed in developed areas for the development of the particular place
Modern greenfield airports are under construction in Beijing, Istanbul, Sydney and Chennai. Over the next two decades, the number of airports is expected to increase from 133 to 500. Of these, 367 are slated to be greenfield airports.
Partial list of greenfield airports Some of the world's greenfield airports opened since 1995. (Many smaller airports are also under development or proposed, especially in China, India and the Philippines.) Airport Year (Opened / Expected) Country City / Area Al Maktoum International Airport June 2010 United Arab Emirates Dubai Beijing Daxing International Airport September 2019 China Langfang, Hebei Berlin Brandenburg Airport October 2020 Germany Berlin Bhogapuram Airport August 2026 India near Visakhapatnam Chennai Greenfield International Airport 2028–2035 (expected) India Parandur, Kanchipuram, near Chennai Chengdu Tianfu International Airport June 2021 China Chengdu Cochin International Airport June 1999 India near Kochi Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport 2024 (expected) China Dalian Hamad International Airport May 2014 Qatar Doha Hanthawaddy International Airport (under construction) Myanmar Bago Islamabad International Airport May 2018 Pakistan near Rawalpindi / Islamabad Istanbul Airport October 2018 Turkey Istanbul Itanagar Airport December 2022 India Hollongi, Arunachal Pradesh Kannur International Airport December 2018 India Kerala Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport September 2013 India Andal, West Bengal Kempegowda International Airport May 2008 India near Bangalore, Karnataka Manohar International Airport December 2022 India Mopa, Goa Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport March 2013 Sri Lanka near Hambantota Dinkar Balu Patil International Airport December 2025 India Navi Mumbai Vadodara Airport 2017 India near Harni, Vadodara, Gujarat New International Airport for Mexico City Cancelled (2018) Mexico Mexico City New Gwadar International Airport 2025 Pakistan Gwadar Noida International Airport 2024 (Phase 1, expected) India Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, near Delhi NCR Pakyong Airport October 2018 India near Gangtok, Sikkim Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport August 2021 China Qingdao Rajiv Gandhi International Airport March 2008 India near Hyderabad Rajkot Greenfield Airport 2023 (expected) India near Hirasar, Gujarat Shirdi Airport October 2017 India near Shirdi Techo Takhmao International Airport 2025 (expected) Cambodia near Phnom Penh Western Sydney Airport 2026 (expected) Australia Badgerys Creek Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport 2025 (expected) China Xiamen
See also Greenfield project Greenfield land Brownfield land
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