The international airport in the capital of Costa Rica, will be too small to meet the air traffic needs of Costa Rica in the next 10 years.

In 1996 the U.S. consultancy firm TAMS Inc. “recommended the Civil Aviation authority to move the administration of Juan Santamaria Airport into private hands, while a new terminal was being built”, which should be operational in 2020.

Nacion.com reports that “Luis Carlos Araya, the current Minister of Air Transport, accepted that they can not keep wasting time, as improvements to Juan Santamaría will last until 2025, five years longer than the TAMS expected.”

“What we are doing is providing for what could come along in the future if we do not act. If this country does not have the port infrastructure it needs, with growing tourism, in a few years we will be in trouble”, said the deputy minister.

Source: Nacion.com