E VEN as the district administration is yet to finalise details of land acquisition for expansion of Chennai airport, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is going ahead with modernisation and augmentation of passenger and aircraft facilities at the airport at a faster pace.
Already the airport has completed construction of 20 parking bays for aircraft. An exclusive parking bay has also been created to receive Airbus 380 and runways and taxi tracks are being strengthened.
According to Dinesh Kumar, airport director, the parking bays were completed and improved facilities were being added from time to time.
A mega plan has been drawn up for modernisation of international terminal. This will provide an additional 12,000 square feet of space for international passenger handling, Dinesh Kumar said.
The new arrivals terminal has been readied by renovating a portion of the existing one at Anna International Terminal. Anna terminal handles 17 international operators and one more has started operating with Tiger Airlines starting flights to Singapore.
The same pattern of development will be followed at the domestic side also. Around 800 square feet area has been added when the opening of departure II to service four airlines.
According to AAI statistics the airport handled 89,74,126 passengers between April 2006 and March 2007, a whopping 32 percent increase when compared to the figures for the corresponding period last year.
There were 99,775 aircraft movement from April 2006 to March 2007, which is a 44.7 percent increase when compared to the previous years. The average aircraft movement per year is 75,000, second only to Bangalore which registers 84,000 aircraft movement per year.
E VEN as the district administra- tion is yet to finalise details of land acquisition for expansion of Chennai airport, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) is going ahead with modernisation and augmenta- tion of passenger and aircraft facilities at the airport at a faster pace.
Already the airport has completed construction of 20 parking bays for air- craft. An exclusive parking bay has also been created to receive Airbus 380 and runways and taxi tracks are being strengthened. According to Dinesh Kumar, airport director, the parking bays were com- pleted and improved facilities were being added from time to time. A mega plan has been drawn up for modernisation of international termi- nal. This will provide an additional 12,000 square feet of space for interna- tional passenger handling, Dinesh Kumar said.
The new arrivals terminal has been readied by renovating a portion of the existing one at Anna International Terminal. Anna terminal handles 17 international operators and one more has started operating with Tiger Airlines starting flights to Singapore. The same pattern of development will be followed at the domestic side also. Around 800 square feet area has been added when the opening of depar- ture II to service four airlines. According to AAI statistics the airport handled 89,74,126 passengers between April 2006 and March 2007, a whopping 32 percent increase when compared to the figures for the corresponding period last year. There were 99,775 aircraft movement from April 2006 to March 2007, which is a 44.7 percent increase when compared to the previous years.
The average air- craft movement per year is 75,000, sec- ond only to Bangalore which registers 84,000 aircraft movement per year.
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