Nagpur airport is tourism hotspot too

Nagpur: Bigger international airports allow students an 'educational tour' to enable them to study how airports function. Though city's Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport does not do that yet, it has nevertheless emerged as big attraction for students.
Students from city schools and also from other smaller towns of Vidarbha visit the airport to see aircraft land and take off from visitors' gallery. Responding to the trend, Mihan India Ltd (MIL), the airport operator company has reduced its entrance fee for students from Rs 15 to just Rs 5. "With the reduced rates the students coming from economically backward classes would not be anymore deprived from watching major developments at airport operational area", a senior MIL official claimed.
What's more, it is also thinking of starting a conducted tour programme for students that would allow the children to enter the operational area and study all the operations up close. They would also be allowed to see air traffic control operations. Students and people other than passengers will be given entry in viewers' gallery airport at nominal rates. The MIL has already reduced the parking charges for vehicles so that more users make use of parking facilities and also reduced the standard viewers' gallery rates to Rs 15, the official stated.
06/01/12 Sachin Dravekar/Times of India

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Categories: airports Jan 2012