"Paris Airport Terminal Roof to Be Demolished, Rebuilt"

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Paris Airport Terminal Roof to Be Demolished, Rebuilt
Bloomberg


The roof of a passenger terminal at Paris's Roissy Charles de Gaulle
airport, whose collapse last May killed four people, will be demolished and
rebuilt, Aeroport de Paris said. 

ADP, which operates Roissy, the capital's largest airport, will pull down
the entire vault of terminal 2E as a precautionary measure and rebuild it,
said a company spokesman who declined to be identified. ADP said in an
e-mailed statement that it plans to re-open the terminal in the winter of
2007. 

The 750 million-euro ($1 billion) terminal 2E, which opened in June 2003,
was used mainly by Air France SA and its Skyteam partners. The accident
forced the company to find alternatives for 60 flights serviced by the
terminal. 

The collapse came just a month before a bill that aimed to change ADP's
status to a limited liability company, a condition for selling shares to the
public, was introduced to Parliament. 

The main body of terminal 2E is joined to an outward pier, whose roof
collapsed. The lower section of the pier hasn't suffered any damage and
doesn't need repairing, ADP said.


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