Copter service to connect tourist centres in TN

Coimbatore: The Helicopter Corporation of India and Tamil Nadu government have proposed to enter into a joint venture for launching helicopter service connecting major tourist centres in the state, a senior Airport Authority of India (AAI) official said on Monday.
Initially, Coimbatore and Udhagamandalam and Madurai and Kodaikanal would be linked for the benefit of tourists, K Ramalingam, Regional Executive Director, AAI, Chennai, told reporters on the sidelines of a National seminar on Aerospace Structures, organised by Park College of Engineering and Technology, on the city outskirts.
AAI has taken up the expansion of runways and aprons at airports of Madurai, Tiruchy, Mangalore, Calicut, Visakhapatnam and Thiruvananthapuram to cope with the increase in the volume of traffic. The expansion would facilitate easy landing and take off of more wide-bodied aircraft, he said.
15/10/07 PTI/The Hindu

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