First no-frills airport to come up near Jaipur

A new airport planned near Jaipur by a group of individuals could be India’s first no-frills airline facility and would service clients and
customers travelling out of New Delhi and the Rajasthan capital.
The civil aviation ministry has okayed the plan to set up the facility whose phase I would cost under Rs 500 crore. It will come up 60 km off Jaipur and 12 km from the national highway that connects Delhi to Jaipur.
Promoters Rajasthan Aviation Infrastructure (India) have tied up with Fraport AG of Germany for technical consultancy and are planning to get the airport up and running by 2014.
The cost structure of the new airport stacks up against the Rs 10,000 crore provisioned for first phase expansion of the Delhi airport and the Rs 2,000 crore that each of the Bangalore and the Hyderabad airports cost.
Mr Dua said that in the first phase, the airport will have a 7,000 feet runway which can handle aircraft of Airbus A 320 size. The land identified for the project is owned by the Rajasthan government and the company is now in negotiations to buy the land. There is no cultivated land in the project site and the promoters feel that there will no issues related to land acquisition or rehabilitation.
The project location is only 160 km from Delhi and just 60 km from Rewari, which is a key point in the Delhi-Mumbai dedicated railway freight corridor. Apart from low-cost airlines, the proposed airport could attract private jets since parking fees would be lower than Delhi and Jaipur.
06/03/10 G Ganapathy Subramaniam/Economic Times

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