Naveen urges Centre to make city airport international

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today urged the Centre to declare the Biju Patnaik Airport here as an international airport in view of the requisite infrastructure facilities available in the state capital.
"You may use your good office to ask airline operators to operate international flights out of/through the Biju Patnaik Airport, Bhubaneswar," Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said in a letter to Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh.
Reminding Singh of the meeting they had held on March 9, Patnaik said: "You had also offered to explore the possibility of connecting Bhubaneswar to Middle-East, South Asian and Sooth East Asian countries."
14/07/12 PTI/Business Standard

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Categories: airports Jul 2012