Puducherry airport to be developed

Puducherry: The Department of Tourism of Puducherry administration and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) would ink a memorandum of understanding here tomorrow for development of the airport at Lawspet near here.
A department release said today that the airport (which is not operational now) would be developed in two phases.The AAI would take up immediate expansion of the runway by 260 metres for operation by ATR 22 (62-seater) aircraft and in phase two, the airport's runway would be expanded to its full length for handling air buses.
The Union Territory administration had agreed in principle to transfer around 370 acres of land to the AAI on ownership basis (the 120 acre site of the existing airport land and additionally 250 acres) which were being acquired now for expansion of the airport.
The present runway length of the airport was suitable for operation of smaller (18 seater) aircraft.
15/06/07 Chennai Online

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