New building to be used as international terminal at Ahmedabad: AAI

Ahmedabad: Airport Authority of India (AAI) has put to rest all speculations about the probable use of swanky building at the Ahmedabad airport by announcing that it would be used as the international terminal. The domestic airlines would continue to operate out of old terminus.
Looking at the number of domestic passengers, the AAI decided to swap the international and domestic terminus. Even the Union minister of state for civil aviation Praful Patel had in the Lok Sabha made it clear that "swapping the functioning of the domestic and international terminals at Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad, had been planned by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), as the requirement of domestic traffic was much more as compared to international traffic. This is being done without compromising the level of service."
However, there after a lot of thinking went in and finally the AAI officials have decided to go as per the original plan of having the new building recently inaugurated as an international terminus.
The officials said that in the first two months of the current financial year alone the Ahmedabad airport registered a growth of 27.8 per cent, which was more then the national average which was the growth of 16.2 per cent.
01/09/10 Times of India

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Categories: airports Sep 2010