Southern airports on recovery path

New Delhi: The airports of south India are back on the path of recovery, thanks to the modernisation of several loss-making airports by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). What’s more, according to AAI, many airports such as Mangalore and Visakhapatnam have registered profits in the last fiscal and those at Tiruchirapalli, Madurai and Rajamundhry are expected to log profits in the current fiscal.
AAI is implementing modernisation and expansion projects at six airports - Tiruchirapalli, Madurai, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Kozhikode and Mangalore.
AAI is in the process of developing the old airport at Mysore and the work will comprise strengthening and widening of runways and construction of new terminal building. The Tamil Nadu government has also approached AAI to expand and modernise the airport at Tuticorin.
Another plea has been made by the Tamil Nadu government to convert the naval base airport located at Uchipuli into a civilian air terminal.The state government has also evinced interest to use services of Helicopters Corporation of India to connect hill stations of Kodaikanal and Ooty.
25/11/07 Raja Awasthi/Economic Times

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Categories: Airports Nov 2007