Airports to turn into all-in-one aeropolises

New Delhi: Airports are vying with each other to go beyond flight operations. Call it an aeropolis or aerotropolis — that’s the buzzword in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Nagpur. With city centres, plush hotels, convention centres and banks, the airport projects in these centres aim to become self-contained cities.
The airport city theme is gaining ground with greenfield airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore providing enough scope even as the proposed cargo hub at Nagpur plans to include a special economic zone besides logistics facilities and a township.
Not to be left behind, the joint ventures modernising Delhi and Mumbai airports are also planning to host hotels, retail space and entertainment options. A similar attempt is expected by smaller airports as the government goes in for upgrade of 35 non-metro airports.
24/07/07 Saurabh Sinha/Economic Times

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Categories: Airports Jul 2007, New Jul 2007