Foreign airlines to help new Hyderabad airport take off

Hyderabad: Six months before a new international airport is set to open here, the company operating the facility says it has lined up several foreign airlines—Kuwait Airways, Etihad Airways, AirArabia, Iran National Airlines and British Airways—for flights.
“Even some other airlines which are not very well-known also want to start (flights),” said T. Srinagesh, chief operating officer of Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (Hial).
The Hyderbad airport is nearly 80% complete and is finalizing most of the concession agreements, he said.
Both the airport here and a new one also coming up in Bangalore are set to start around the same time—around March—and are now wooing airlines with new facilities that promise better aircraft turnaround times, efficient processes and substantial passenger traffic.
The new airport, an hour away from much of the city and spread over a 5,000-acre site, can also handle new aircraft, including the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 or the heaviest, the Russian-made cargo plane AN-225.
13/09/07 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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