Changi Passenger terminals
Changi Airport has four main passenger terminals arranged
in an elongated inverted "U" shape with Jewel in the centre of the "U"
shape. Currently, the airport has a designed total annual handling
capacity of 85 million passengers.[21]
There is also a privately run luxury terminal called the JetQuay
CIP Terminal. It is similar to the Lufthansa First Class Terminal
at Frankfurt
Airport, but is open to all passengers travelling in all classes on
all airlines with an access fee.[27]
The short-lived Budget Terminal was opened on 26 March
2006 and closed on 25 September 2012 to make way for Terminal 4.
Terminal 5 is currently under construction, along with a
third runway. The new terminal is expected to be completed by 2030.[28]

Jewel Changi
Airport
Jewel Changi Airport,
which opened on 17 April 2019, is a nature-themed entertainment and
retail complex interconnecting Terminals 1, 2 and 3.[32] Announced
in 2013, it is a new terminal-like structure that is intended to
simultaneously be a mixed-use complex.[33] It
is situated on a 3.5-hectare site where the Terminal 1 car park used to
reside, which has since been moved underground. Jewel was developed by
Jewel Changi Airport Trustee Pte Ltd, a joint venture between Changi
Airport Group and CapitaLand,
through its wholly owned shopping mall business, CapitaLand Mall Asia.[34] The
project cost S$1.7 billion.[35]
Part of this project was planned to help expand Terminal
1 to handle 24 million passengers per year by 2018 with stand-alone
check-in facilities and lounges, making it an unofficial terminal on its
own.[36] The
Indoor Waterfall (named "Rain Vortex") in the structure holds the World
Record for the tallest indoor waterfall in the world.[37]
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