Airlines to be called for Andal airport recce

Calcutta: Bengal Aerotropolis will invite airlines to check out the facilities at the Andal airport city which it expects to make operational by the end of this year.
“We’ll present the airport to the airlines in a two-day meet in the first week of February. We’re hopeful that a number of airlines will be interested in operating flights from Andal,” Subrata Paul, the CEO and director of Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited, said today at the Bengal Leads summit at Milon Mela.
Travel agents from Durgapur and adjoining areas, and officials of public sector units such as Durgapur Steel Plant, Eastern Coalfields Limited, IISCO Steel Plant and Bharat Coking Coal Limited will also participate in the meeting to discuss the potentiality of passenger traffic from the airport, he said.
Construction work for the first phase of the Rs 10,000-crore project, which includes the airport, has been progressing as scheduled and the first flight is expected to take off in the last quarter of 2012, said Paul.
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10/01/11 The Telegraph

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