Chennai: The Airports Authority of India is gearing up to make Chennai airport a hub for air travel in south India.
"More facilities will be offered to airlines to step up operations and cargo-handling facilities will also be improved as Chennai has a port," AAI chairman V P Agrawal said on Wednesday. The two new terminals at the airport will be inaugurated by vice-president Hamid Ansari on Thursday, but it will take more than a month to make them ready for passengers, he said.
The existing terminals will be re-modelled to increase the total passenger-handling capacity to 40 million passengers a year. Now, more than 12.4 million passengers a year use the airport. The new terminals and upgrading of air side infrastructure cost 2,012 crore.
30/01/13 Times of India
