MALAYSIA is renovating Kuala Lumpur International Airport's Terminal 2 at a cost of M$25 million (HK$75 million) for it to be ready to handle ASEAN flights by October this year.
Visitors to Malaysia who have been used to taking the country's domestic flights at the airport's Terminal 2 will now have to board their planes at the new Terminal 3.
The 16,300-square-metre terminal building, which has taken 14 months to build at a cost of M$151 million, was opened to the public in December last year.
The building has 32 check-in counters.
Terminal 3 will be able to handle 10.75 million passengers by 1998 compared with the 4.4 million handled previously at Terminal 2.
It will also be able to handle a maximum peak-hour passenger load of 2,600 people by 1998 compared to 1,100 at Terminal 2 in 1992.