His Majesty King Abdullah II on Thursday followed up the expansion works carried out in Queen Alia International Airport, which started a year ago in order to improve the services provided to passengers and make the airport meet international demands.



During a meeting with the Airport's Facilities and Infrastructure Committee, His Majesty urged for speeding up improvment process of the services through providing up to date technologies and increasing the number of qualified and trained staff.



The airport is the cultural view which gives visitors the first impression regarding the country, so humanitarian skills there should be developed to ensure providing essential services to passengers, His Majesty said.



The meeting was attended by Minister of the Royal Court Sameer Rifai, His Majesty's Advisor Aqel Beltaji, Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Halaiqa and Interior Minister Sameer Habashneh, among other senior officials. During the meeting, some problems were solved when His Majesty gave instructions to build proper hangers for storage of commodities before distribution.



The expansion cost of the airport, which received last year about 2.5 million passengers, reaches JD 25 thousand.