Hyderabad airport should be ‘hub of choice'

Mangalore: GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), which operates the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, wanted to make Hyderabad a gateway to south and central India, said Vikram Jaisinghani, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), GHIAL.
It took lesser time and was less expensive travelling via Hyderabad than via other connecting airports for both domestic and international travel, he said.
Hyderabad should be the ‘hub of choice' as the airport and infrastructure were ready and now it offers connectivity as well. GHIAL is looking at travellers from a catchment area of 72 million people in 20 cities. They are mostly Tier-II and Tier-III cities that are within one to one-and-a-half hour's flight time from Hyderabad such as Rajahmundry, Thiruvananthapuram, Indore, Nagpur, Pune, Goa and Bhubaneswar. Of these, 13 were particularly being given top priority, including Mangalore, he said. The target travellers will be from both the low-cost segment and the ‘normal' travellers.
He said that while it took 8 hours and 35 minutes from Mangalore to Kolkata via Mumbai, it took 7 hours and 45 minutes via Bangalore, and 6 hours and 45 minutes via Hyderabad.
02/11/11 The Hindu

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Categories: airports Nov 2011