Kuala Lumpur Airport KLIA LCCT

hall on level 3 of KLIA. Travel time to the city takes between 45 minutes to an hour. A surcharge will be imposed for transfers between midnight and 6.00am. About 3 decades ago the present area of Kuala Lumpur International Airport was covered with lush tropical jungle. The area around Kuala Lumpur developed rapidly into an economic and business powerhouse. Malaysia was colonized by the British in its early years and some years ago the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport was constructed, the architect was Japanese Mr. Kisho Kurokawa.
The first Kuala Lumpur Airport was at Simpang the main airport for Kuala Lumpur from 1952 to 1965, Simpang still serves as a local airport close to KL center. After Kuala Lumpur International Airport was moved to Subang, west of KL city center on the way to the Klang Sea Port. When the outskirts of the city reached Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport and houses were constructed quite close to the airport the Kuala Lumpur International Airport was moved again. This time into the oil palm plantings south of the city. An ambitious project was set up by the Malaysian government to build a state of the art modern style Kuala Lumpur Airport to cater to the steady increasing flow of people and cargo to and from Malaysia. A huge modern style airport was constructed with a rather decentralized architecture with two main terminals. Kuala Lumpur Airport	Kuala Lumpur Airport, Kuala Lumpur international airport.
Transfers connects the 2 main terminals by a small bus / train. This airport construction is an excellent idea to shorten the walking distances. Kuala Lumpur airport to city is via a rail link and a excellent motorway. There is also a bus and limousine service from this international airport to KL Central city terminal. The usual airport facilities and environ is available including the modern styled Kuala Lumpur airport hotel

- Kuala Lumpur Airport,

Kisho Kurokawa, the designer of the Airport did a great job through diversity. Reflecting Malaysia's economic and commercial aspirations, the Kuala Lumpur airport act as a hub for international travel from which local connections will distribute passengers around the region.

Although hubs are becoming an increasingly important part of global air travel, they tend to be very isolated and cut off from any sense of  local culture and climate. Kuala Lumpur Airport is situated 31 miles or about 50 km south of Kuala Lumpur. Kisho Kurokawa the architect of the Kuala Lumpur airport brings together indigenous materials, forms and landscaping. Integrated is a airport hotel with a great modern styling. The Kuala Lumpur airport hotel is always full during the Malaysia Formula One Grand Prix at Sepang circuit which is just close by.

The Kuala Lumpur Airport follows the relatively conventional arrangement of a main terminal building and free-standing satellites. The four-storey terminal connects with road access at first floor (international arrivals) and fourth floor (international departures).

KL airport domestic arrivals and departures are on the second floor. The terminal is also served by a railway station on an intermediate mezzanine and from here a new high speed train link unites the airport with the city.

Like Tokyo's Kansai, Kuala Lumpur airport center is the international departures hall at upper level. Here, Kuala Lumpur airport is enclosed by an elaborate roof of linked hyperbolic paraboloids, supported by squat, conical columns which also contain and distribute services.

The airport roof looks like a cluster of umbrellas. The underside is clad in narrow strips of wood and vertical slashes of glazing incised along the edges of each parabolic wash the cavernous space with an ethereal luminance, reflected by the lustrous floor of highly polished marble and terrazzo. The roof form alludes to traditional Islamic domes and vernacular Malaysian timber structures. Over sailing beyond the external wall line, the paraboloids provide protection against the heat and glare of the tropical sun.

- The airport terminal is linked to a longitudinal pier.

-The plan ingeniously attempts to reduce lengthy walks to the gates.

Passengers are disgorged in the centre of the satellite and board their planes from gates stationed on both sides of each satellite arm. The Kuala Lumpur airport satellites employ a similar but simplified architectural language of undulating roofs and tree-like steel structural elements. Timber-clad ceilings are randomly studded

with spotlights, like stars blazing through a tented canopy, heightening the shimmering play of light and reflections. The Kuala Lumpur airport potential for expansion was a major element of the brief, so the basic arrangement of terminal and two satellites can simply be handed (replicated in mirror image) about the central station and road network.

Transfer in the satellites (or even half satellites) can be added incrementally as necessary, and the longitudinal pier attached to the main Kuala Lumpur airport terminal can also be extended. Considering the evolution of most major airports, this sense of ordered development immediately sets Kuala Lumpur apart, but it is also distinguished by the invigorating drama of its public spaces, which endeavors to civilize the drear experience of modern air travel.

-The Kuala Lumpur Airport - City Rail Link

Kuala Lumpur's Airport Transportation is the Express Rail Link from the airport  to city is a new 57km rail link between Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the city centre provides a minimum passenger journey time of 30 minutes.

The Airport Transportation Express Rail Link (ERL) Express Rail Link from the Kuala Lumpur airport to City in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, opened on April 19 when the construction consortium, SYZ, handed it over officially to ERL SB, the company which was awarded the 30-year concession by the government to finance, design, build, manage, operate, and maintain the $US 632 million airport railway.

The Kuala Lumpur Airport Rail Link Train connects Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with Sentral station and it is operated by two distinct types of passenger service. The Airport Transportation Express Rail Link from the Kuala Lumpur airport  to City Airport Terminal Express service operates every 15 minutes and provides a non-stop journey time of 28 minutes.

A commuter train service (CRS) serve three intermediate stations at Bandar Tasik Selatan, Putrajaya, and Salak Tinggi. This will operate every 30 minutes, providing an end-to-end journey time of 36 minutes.

Putrajaya is a new city which is the administrative capital of Malaysia. It is part of a 15 by 50km area along the ERL route which

been designed ultimately to enable Airport Express services to run at 10-minute headways and CRS to run at 20-minute intervals.

The Airport Train Express Rail Link (ERL) from the Kuala Lumpur airport to City in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ERL SB has two shareholders--Tabung Haji Technologies (THT), with a 60% stake, and YTL Corporation, with 40%. The turn-key construction contract, worth $US 519 million, was awarded to SYZ, which comprises Siemens, with a 59% share, and YTL, with 41%. Siemens was responsible for the electro-mechanical part of the contract, and YTL for civil works.

An airline check-in and check-out facility has been built at KL Sentral station, which itself was only opened shortly before the airport.

The station provides an interchange with the Putra light metro network as well as with the monorail line, currently under construction, which is due to open later this year.

The check-in and check-out facilities also include ticketing counters, baggage handling facilities, customs clearance facilities, and up-to-date passenger information on train services and flights from KLIA. There is a two-hour minimum check-in for airline passengers at Sentral. The station has also been given its own IATA airport destination code of XKL. It is the first in the world to have complete check-out facilities equivalent to an airport. Author Phoebe Chow - COPYRIGHT Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation and Gale Group