Tokyo Airfield (Haneda) was returned to the Japan Government on July 1, 1952 and renamed Tokyo International Airport. Since then, it has served as Japan's main gateway to the skies for over 50 years. Today, it has grown into one of the world's busiest airports used by more than 60 million passengers a year.
During this time, most of the international services were transferred to New Tokyo International Airport (Narita) when it opened in 1978. However, with the re-expansion project for Tokyo International Airport, Haneda has once again been transformed into an East Asia gateway.
The "construction and operation of the international terminal and facilities at Tokyo International Airport" undertaken by TIAT were planned with the objective of designing and supervising the construction of the passenger terminal, the car park for airport users and the connecting corridor linking the two facilities, as well as the efficient operation and management of these facilities through private finance initiative (PFI) as part of the Tokyo International Airport re-expansion project.
To achieve this objective, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced an implementation policy on April 15, 2005 and application guidelines on June 29 the same year. Subsequently, the founders of our company, Japan Airport Terminal Co., Ltd. (JATCO), Japan Airlines Corporation and All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., formed a consortium comprising 14 companies under the leadership of JATCO, which, after primary and secondary government reviews, was designated as a candidate for the selection process.