AAI plans 'aviation educational tours' for students at Nagpur airport

Nagpur: In a bid to create awareness about aviation activities, encourage tourism and provide people, especially school and college students, a good view of the operational area of the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Mihan India Private Limited (MIPL), has plans to start aviation education tours at the city airport.
On February 18, 1911, the first commercial plane flew in India between Allahabad and Naini carrying mails. "To commemorate this milestone, the year 2011-12 is being celebrated as the Civil Aviation Centenary Year and we have decided to run the aviation education tour programme for students and visitors (other than passengers) at city airport," airport director airport director Ashok Kumar Verma said on Friday.
Under the plan, students and people other than passengers will be given entry in viewers' gallery and in operational area of airport (on selected days) at nominal rates. The MIPL has already proposed to reduce the parking charges for vehicles so that more users can make use of parking facilities and also to reduce the viewers' gallery rates at city airport.
19/02/11 Sachin Dravekar/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011