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Ivato International Airport construction.

Continue the planning and extension work at the level of the Ivato international airport and society Ravinala Airports (constituted by the airport of Paris Management, Bouygues building International, Colas Madagascar and Africa Meridian) needs three years to finish what she started.

Planned start in June 2015, work finally began in the month of June 2016. The official presentation of the model was carried out in March.

This work is expected to cost 150 EUR million to the consortium (the State does not have the resources for this project, therefore appealed to a public-private partnership who ultimately chose this consortium). They will allow the Antananarivo-Ivato airport to quadruple its current area.

As a first step, What has also been already achieved for the reception of the Summit of la Francophonie in November, Ravinala Airports company is responsible for the extension of the tarmac. Now, the tarmac of Ivato was lengthened several hundreds of meters, to accommodate jumbo jets, including the Airbus A-380.

Then, the new buildings, which will be built at the level of the former military camp of the regiment of the intervention forces (RFI) and the Ivato naval base (BANI) will serve as a terminal for international flights (the old building and the premises of the Ivato airport will be spent only on domestic flights). The total area of these buildings of about 17500 m² should accommodate 1,5 million passengers per year.

It should be recalled that this building will have 3 gateways that will embark or disembark passengers on airplanes directly, without going through the tarmac. On the other hand, This new structure should be able to support 4 jumbo jets, whose 3 directly in bridge.

Once the work is completed (normally planned for mid-2019 and standards of the Transport Association international air-IATA -.), the company Ravinala Airport will manage these infrastructure during a period of 28 years (under the terms of the partnership agreement signed between the consortium and the Malagasy State).

20 billion ariary

Originally, construction and extension of the Ivato airport works were due to begin in June 2015, because two Ivato military camps namely the intervention forces regiment (RFI) and the Ivato naval base (BANI) have been slow to move. These two camps are actually planned be moved a few steps from the airport, but the construction of the new infrastructure of the camps was not ready yet. CHEC, a Chinese company, is committed to these buildings and the amount of work is around them 20 billion ariary. The Minister of State in charge of presidential projects and the planning of yesteryear, RIVO Rafik, has pointed out that the State undertakes to repay the investments of the company.

On the other hand, the Minister of national defence of yesteryear, the general Dominique Rakotozafy expressed that the Ivato airport is a strategic site for the entry and exit of the territory, the military camps of the RFI and the BANI should always be nearby.

These new infrastructures should of course include the barracks of the troops, as well as administrative buildings, sports fields, a framework of leisure, a prep area on the ground before the parachuting drills, or the training for the military zones.

Madagascar Ground Handling

Ivato airport is not only dedicated to aircraft and the military camps. Indeed, which Park or aircraft which are stopover are the subject of several reviews and audits, generally, operations classified "handling".. These operations are carried out by staff of the Madagascan airline company Air Madagascar. However, the return of the Director-general of the airline, After a trip to Paris in the month of April 2016, It was question to remove the management of this operation on behalf of Madagascar Ground Handling (Madagascar Ground Handling being a subsidiary of the airline national, in the form of joint-stock company, including the fear of executives and employees of Air Madagascar would be an opening of capital of this company that so leave free course to foreign investors, to have a stranglehold on the State Corporation).

Employees of the company are so insurgents in October last to denounce this Government decision, to remove the handling, Air Madagascar employees. Alain r, Union and technician of the company representative, points out that the Handling is live 130 employees of this company and generates between 40% to 60% monthly revenue of Air Madagascar (on average 600 000 euros per month).

After negotiations, the Government withdrew in November, to give free rein to the employees of Air Madagascar, to ensure «» provisionally "this handling. Decision which is not yet the taste of employees, because they want a firm and permanent decision making and not provisional, compared to this topic.

In the meantime, international airlines such as Turkish Airlines and Air Austral have already tasted this malaise between the State and employees of Air Madagascar. Car, the handling of the aircraft of these two companies has almost be sloppy.

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