Kolkata airport to turn swanky with modernisation

Kolkata: The Kolkata airport or Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport is often a “traveller's nightmare.” It is small, clumsy, mismanaged and perhaps not what an airport should be like. But come October and all these are set to change.
“Flights will be operational once airlines are able to shift their counters to the new terminal. It might take up to December,” an airport official said on conditions of anonymity.
The nearly Rs 2,500-crore modernisation programme, stuck by several delays, is being carried out by the Thai-Indian consortium of ITD-ITD Cementation. The modernisation work will bring the airport at par with international standards.
It had an initial completion date of August 2011. It has been revised to May 2012 and now to October 2012. Currently, over 90 per cent of the modernisation work is complete.
03/06/12 Abhishek Law/Business Line

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Categories: airports Jun 2012