PETALING JAYA: As Covid-19 continues to force most international borders shut, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) is taking the opportunity to upgrade its facilities and to gear up towards the expansion of its airports, especially KLIA. The group is planning to stretch KLIA’s current capacity of 30 million passengers per annum to 50 million. The number of passengers handled by the airport was already beyond capacity before Covid-19 struck. MAHB’s plans were in line with its expectations of a return in passenger traffic to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 or 2024. It has earmarked RM400mil for its capital expenditure (capex) this year, which will kick off with the first leg of big ticket items such as the upgrading of its baggage handling system (BHS) and the replacement of aerotrains.