Fukuoka Airport, Japan's fourth busiest, was the third to be privatised (in 2019) in a process that began in 2013 - but which has proceeded in a piecemeal manner since, and with something of a hiatus occurring now. The winning bidder, a joint venture of power and rail interests - not unusual in Japan but rare elsewhere - made a series of claims as to what it would do to improve the airport, and by and large, it seems to have succeeded in its aim…
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