Commissioning of Thiruvananthapuram terminal: New deadline set

Thiruvananthapuram: Setting yet another deadline, a meeting of officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), various airlines and other agencies concerned has decided to commission the new terminal of the Thiruvananthapuram Airport latest by December second week.
Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor in the Civil Aviation Ministry E K Bharath Bhushan had convened a meeting on Tuesday which directed the airlines and other agencies concerned to expedite various measures for commissioning the new terminal.
The commissioning of the new terminal had been postponed a couple of times owing to the lack of preparedness of various agencies in setting up the required facilities. Former Airport Director V N Chandran was even shifted, allegedly following strong lobbying by various quarters.
It was decided at Tuesday’s meeting that in the initial phase, only international services would be operated from the new terminal.
‘’.. for the time-being we are going ahead with international services only. Any decision on shifting the domestic services to the existing international terminal, as planned initially, was also not taken,’’ said an official.
18/11/10 ExpressBuzz

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