Parking at Chennai airport still a far cry

Chennai: New terminals will increase the passenger handling capacity of the airport by several fold, but the expanded and modernised airport may not have adequate parking space for cars.
The plan of Airports Authority of India (AAI) to build a multi-level car park under public-private mode has run into rough weather because of poor response to a tender floated for the project. As not many companies came forward to bid for the Rs 150-crore 56,283 sq m car park, AAI has cancelled the tender.
"We are now planning to float a fresh tender for the project. There was no response for the earlier tender," said AAI chairman V P Agrawal.
Sources said that AAI's response to the queries raised by prospective bidders did not satisfy the firms that had showed interest.
"AAI wants to maintain the existing car park. The bidders want the car park to be closed when the multi-level car park is ready, for the fear that they will lose revenue. The project is delayed because of this deadlock," said an airport official.
21/01/11 V Ayyappan/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011