Hyderabad’s new international airport: Starting the take-off run

While the opening of the the new Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad is five months away, work is going on at a frantic pace to ensure that all activities come on line smoothly for the transfer of business from the existing airport to the one at Shamshabad. The cost of the first phase of the project that is to be commissioned in March is estimated at Rs 2,478 crore.
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), which was formed to design, finance, build, operate and maintain the greenfield airport at Shamshabad, started trial operation programmes in early September this year. It has appointed the Airport Consulting wing of Munich Airport International for handling the Operational Readiness and Airport Transfer process, more commonly referred to as ORAT.
For Munich Airport International, that was responsible for the shifting of business from the old Bangkok airport to the new Suvarnabhumi airport in Thailand, as well as to the new airport in Kuala Lumpur, the new Terminal 3 in Singapore and the soon to be operational Terminal 5 in London Heathrow, the task at Hyderabad is nothing new.
When completed, the airport, that is a public-private partnership project between GMR Infrastructure, Malaysian Airports Holding, Berhad, Airports Authority of India and the Andhra Pradesh State government, will provide world-class facilities and infrastructure. Its single terminal will be equipped with common user terminal equipment, check-in desks and self check-in kiosks.
05/11/07 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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Categories: Airports Nov 2007, New Nov 2007