HNA Infrastructure (0694-HK, 9.60) to Further Expand Haikou Meilan Airport

A newly proposed expansion is reported to commence in October 2015. A second runway will be added, as will as 290,000 square meter terminal building. This is designed to boost nameplate annual capacity to 30 million passengers upon completion.

http://www.whatsonsanya.com/news-31939.html

As of April 2015, passenger traffic statistics reported at the Haikou Meilan International Airport were indicated to be growing by an annualized pace of 17.1% over the same period of 2014.

http://www.mlairport.com/autoweb/autoweb/third/mljc_eng_tzzgx792.html

A 15.5% growth rate in passenger traffic, for calendar 2015, is required to produce a 16 million person throughput at the airport.