Express
Toby Cobb and Maria Ortega
26 May 2025
The new modern terminal will have the capacity for 40 million passengers to pass through every year.
A new terminal at a capital city airport has partially opened after months of delay. The project, which began in 2019, cost a whopping $1.3bn (£970,000) and will increase the airport's capacity to 40 million passengers per year.
The new Jorge Chávez International Airport terminal, which serves Lima in Peru, is part of a broader project which includes new hotels, logistics areas, an air cargo transfer center and new customer warehouses. It began its operational phase on May 15 and will fully open on June 1. Despite being just under 7,000 miles away from Europe, one of the first passengers to arrive at the terminal said it "looks like" the continent.
