Infrastructure · Badung

Ngurah Rai airport to expand to 32 million passengers a year

InJourney Airports is continuing its development programme at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport in 2026. The goal is to lift terminal capacity to 32 million passengers a year.

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Key points

  • Terminal capacity is set to rise to 32 million passengers a year.
  • A connecting pier and a bridge between the domestic and international terminals are planned.
  • Ngurah Rai is one of four airports in InJourney's 2026 development programme.

What is planned

InJourney Airports CEO Mohammad Pahlevi said the company is continuing development at four airports this year. They are Ngurah Rai in Bali, Soekarno-Hatta, Minangkabau and Depati Amir.

In Bali, passenger terminal capacity is to be raised to 32 million people a year. That is the main headline figure of the programme.

The works

At the international terminal, the departure piers at gates 1 to 9 will be optimised. A connecting pier will be built between the terminals, and a bridge will link the domestic and international buildings.

Check-in and commercial areas will also be refurbished. The company says the new bridge should cut check-in processing time.

Why the operator is doing it

InJourney links the programme to service standards and passenger experience. It wants to rank among the world's top 100 airports.

The article gives no completion dates for individual works. So 32 million passengers should be read as target capacity after expansion, not a current figure.

What is still unknown

InJourney did not disclose the cost of the programme or completion dates for the Bali works. The list covers terminals, piers and connecting bridges and does not mention a new runway.

A pier is the gallery of boarding gates where aircraft park. Optimising the piers at gates 1 to 9 is meant to speed up boarding for international flights.

For passengers, the main practical change is the bridge between terminals. It is meant to make transfers between domestic and international flights simpler and to shorten check-in queues.

What it means for investors

Airport capacity sets how many visitors can physically reach the island, which is the base of rental demand. But guest flow also depends on the road out of the airport, which remains a bottleneck for the south and for Ubud. When assessing a villa, look at real peak-hour transfer times from the airport, not just the distance in kilometres.

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Q&A

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InJourney Airports plans to raise Ngurah Rai terminal capacity to 32 million passengers a year.

Source
Katadata, published June 18, 2026, language: Indonesian

Prepared by the DOMA editorial team from public reports, with the original source linked above. This is a news review, not legal or tax advice. Not a public offer.

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