Mumbai: Notwithstanding the complexities associated with the proposed airport in Navi Mumbai, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan says that Maharashtra’s goal is to establish an airport in every district.
He is particularly keen that the State develops airports with facilities for night landing.
“It is the State’s endeavour to have the best civil aviation infrastructure than anywhere else in the country. We want to have all-weather airports in all districts; we look forward to building a robust civil aviation infrastructure,” Chavan said, without articulating a time-frame for this vision.
The State has already identified two locations in Pune for what will be a single runway airport, with the potential to add additional runway in the future, he said.
Maharashtra has 35 districts in all.
“We wish to cover all small airports with commercial services…We have some offers for the same,” he said without providing more details.
According to ourairports.com, Maharashtra has 29 airports of which only eight (Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik, Nanded, Latur and Kolhapur) are used for commercial airline services.
20/10/13 Adith Charlie/Business Line
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He is particularly keen that the State develops airports with facilities for night landing.
“It is the State’s endeavour to have the best civil aviation infrastructure than anywhere else in the country. We want to have all-weather airports in all districts; we look forward to building a robust civil aviation infrastructure,” Chavan said, without articulating a time-frame for this vision.
The State has already identified two locations in Pune for what will be a single runway airport, with the potential to add additional runway in the future, he said.
Maharashtra has 35 districts in all.
“We wish to cover all small airports with commercial services…We have some offers for the same,” he said without providing more details.
According to ourairports.com, Maharashtra has 29 airports of which only eight (Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik, Nanded, Latur and Kolhapur) are used for commercial airline services.
20/10/13 Adith Charlie/Business Line
