Bangalore’s new airport will build a second runway by 2014

Bangalore: Bangalore International Airport Ltd (Bial), the company that is building a new international airport in India’s tech capital, will construct a second runway as early as 2014, more than a decade before its planned date.
“The second runway was initially planned 10 years later. The traffic is growing so fast, we have revised our estimates and hope to touch 18 million passengers (annually) by 2014,” said Albert Brunner, chief executive of Bial, the holding company for the project.
Bial had earlier projected 10.19 million passengers at the airport by 2010 and 13.92 million passengers by 2015.
Globally, a four-km runway, similar to that of Bial, is designed to handle 18 million passengers, with the exception of the Stansted airport in London, which can carry 26 million passengers.
Bial is a consortium of Siemens Projects Ventures, Larsen and Toubro Ltd, India’s largest engineering company, and Unique Zurich Airport, which operates the international airport at Zurich, Switzerland.
13/07/07 K. Raghu/Livemint

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