Schiphol Airport announced in a recent update that the new, 55,000 m² A-Pier will open in April 2027. Construction plans for the pier were announced more than ten years ago, but a series of delays such as a switch in contractor (the project is now led by the Dutch company BAM) have delayed completion.
‘We are pleased that we can now look ahead with confidence to a new delivery date. It is clear that the headache project A-pier went far from smoothly under the previous contractor. Delays, quality problems and a legal conflict did not contribute to progress,’ says Sybren Hahn (executive director Schiphol Infrastructure). The current estimated total costs of Pier A have now risen to almost 1.4 billion, almost a billion higher than the originally released budget.
The new pier will provide three floors and eight gates for narrowbody and widebody aircraft, as well as security filters, border control facilities and retail and F&B facilities. For Schiphol, Pier A is an ‘important pillar in quality and comfort’ and is desperately needed to meet current and future peak times. The new pier must also be the most sustainable at the airport.
‘We are currently in discussions with the airlines about the new rates and investments for the coming years, including the A-Pier. There are understandably questions about this among the airlines and we will therefore provide more insight into the project in those discussions and also explain how Schiphol intends to deal with its costs. It is good to emphasize that the influence of individual projects on the rates is very limited,’ explains Robert Carsouw (CFO) in Schiphol’s update.