Thiruvananthapuram new terminal: Live trial run on Tuesday

Thiruvananthapuram: A live trial run will be carried out at the new terminal of the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Tuesday, with the Air India Express flight IX 605 from Chennai scheduled to arrive by 3.10 pm on that day. There will be passengers on board the aircraft.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) had earlier carried out a trial run on October 18 with an Air India Express aircraft, but it had dummy passengers on board.
The decision to conduct the fresh trial run was taken at a meeting convened by the Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor in the Civil Aviation Ministry E K Bharath Bhushan with the new director of the Thiruvananthapuram Airport G Chandramouli in New Delhi on Thursday. There is also a move to allow domestic services of NACIL from the new terminal owing to operational reasons. However, sources at the airport said that such a move may invite protest from other domestic airlines, Kingfisher and Jet Airways.
Meanwhile, Air India (National Aviation Company of India - NACIL) has cancelled one more flight from here. The services that were earlier cancelled were also not restored in the winter schedule of the national carrier. IC 911, the Thiruvananthapuram- Bangalore- Chennai- Bangalore daily afternoon service, has been cancelled from November.
30/10/10 ExpressBuzz

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