Nagpur: City's Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport has registered almost 59 per cent rise in the domestic passenger traffic with a number of new airlines starting their services from Nagpur to cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata and Bangalore over the last few months.
Sample these figures. Nagpur airport handled 3,69,046 passengers in 2008. In 2009, this figure was marginally reduced by 17,685 passengers to 3,51,361 passengers. However, in 2010 the air traffic from city airport took a quantum leap to 5,60,125 passengers. This makes for a whopping 59% increase over the year. In the first five months of this year (Jan to May), the airport witnessed further growth as 2,89,052 passengers traveled from here or on an average of 1914 passengers daily.
However, despite increase in passenger traffic from here, many facilities announced by Mihan India Limited (MIL), the company operating the airport, are yet to materialize. MIL company secretary Navin Baxi informed that in 2008, daily average of passengers was 1,008 passengers at Nagpur airport, which became 963 in 2009. However, in 2010, he daily average rose to 1,535 passengers. Normally air traffic registers a rise in summer vacations (May and June) and winter vacations (November and December), Baxi informed.
With airport usage increasing, so have been complaints about MIL over even basic facilities. The airport has reduced four-wheeler parking charges and no charge is levied for pick and drop completed within 10 minutes. However several visitors still complain about new 'pay and park' system.
18/07/11 Sachin Dravekar/Times of India
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