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The Rwandan government plans to build a new airport that is expected to be completed by 2015: the New Bugesera International Airport to be located south of Kigali City, in the sparsely populated Nyamata district,in Eastern Rwanda. The New Bugesera International Airport should reduce pressure on the Kigali International Airport.

The project will be funded through a Public-Private Partnerships model, and the Rwandan government has already recruited PricewaterhouseCoopers as transaction advisor to mobilize the private capital to invest in the project.

The construction comes at a time operators are complaining that the growing number of passengers and operators cannot be handled by facilities in Kigali International Airport. During peak days the airport is overwhelmed both by the traffic and planes that land and take off.

In 2004, the airport served 135,189 passengers, in 2008, the airport served about 300 000 passengers, and the number of passengers is projected to rise.