Mission to make Hyderabad AP gateway of south India: GHIAL

Mangalore: The GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), operating the Greenfield Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), is on a mission to make it the gateway and hub of choice south and central India.
"We have been working since three years towards this mission. In 2008 we commissioned the airport and started working with airlines to bring in connectivity to tier 1 and II cities, which is our catchment area," said Vikram R Jaisinghani, CEO, GHIAL to TOI when he was in the city recently.
Launching the Fly by Hyderabad programme here, he said that RGIA brings in seamless connectivity and excellent transit facility. "Therefore a passenger who wants to get connected to national network will find Hyderabad airport a better proposition in terms of cost, comfort and time saving," he said.
To buttress his point further, Jaisinghani said a person flying to Kolkata via Hyderabad from Mangalore will save an hour over Bangalore and nearly two hours via Mumbai. Similarly, he asserted that a trip to Delhi via Hyderabad will save an hour over Mumbai and nearly two hours via Bangalore.
The GHIAL CEO said the first phase of the airport, which has a capacity to handle 12 million passengers per annum, with a peak hour capacity of 3,200 passengers, may reach saturation in four years time, by which time the second phase would start to handle 20 million passengers.
14/11/11 Stanly Pinto/Times of India

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