Hyderabad Airport completed 82 percent

Construction of India's most modern airport at Hyderabad is in full swing with over 82 percent of the work completed. Flight tests are scheduled in January 2008.
To be called the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, the first phase of the GMR-promoted construction, costing $247.8 million, will be completed in March 2008. The international airport would then double its capacity to 12 million passengers a year.
The airport can accommodate the eight-storey tall, Airbus A-380 - the largest passenger aircraft in the world that can carry 853 passengers. About $3 billion will be invested by 2025, which will include a second runway.
A low-cost terminal is expected to be ready in the next phase by 2012, which will enable the airport handle 15 million passengers annually.
The projected traffic growth rate for Hyderabad is a healthy 20 percent a year for the next five years.
The airport will notch up a number of firsts. It will have the longest runway at 4.26 km. Singapore's Changi International Airport runway is currently the longest at 4 km. It will also have the tallest air traffic control (ATC) tower in the country at 75 metres. The airport would be the first to introduce a city check-in facility.
It will be the first airport to qualify for a Leeds certification, awarded to energy and resource efficient buildings. The airport would be among the first to offer fuel on an open access basis.
09/09/07 News Post India

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