Chennai: While the good news is that passenger patronage of the city airport increased in 2013, the alarming news is that they faced collapses and confusion throughout the year at the 2,015-crore, modernised Chennai airport. There were numerous false ceiling crashes, water leakages and glass cracks in the otherwise swanky airport.
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) cleared all doubts about commissioning the much-awaited new terminals on January 31 when vice-president Hamid Ansari did the honours at the third busiest airport in the country in the presence of Union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh.
But the inaugural function was devoid of local representation as Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa skipped the event saying that she was hurt because the new domestic terminal-II was not named after former CM and Bharat Ratna M.G. Ramachandran.
The name terminal-II still continues to confuse passengers who were earlier used to referring to the domestic terminal as Kamaraj terminal and the international terminal as Anna terminal. Even members of the Airline operators committee Chennai (AOCC) boycotted the event as they had a few unresolved issues with the AAI.
21/12/13 S. Sujatha/Deccan Chronicle
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The Airports Authority of India (AAI) cleared all doubts about commissioning the much-awaited new terminals on January 31 when vice-president Hamid Ansari did the honours at the third busiest airport in the country in the presence of Union civil aviation minister Ajit Singh.
But the inaugural function was devoid of local representation as Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa skipped the event saying that she was hurt because the new domestic terminal-II was not named after former CM and Bharat Ratna M.G. Ramachandran.
The name terminal-II still continues to confuse passengers who were earlier used to referring to the domestic terminal as Kamaraj terminal and the international terminal as Anna terminal. Even members of the Airline operators committee Chennai (AOCC) boycotted the event as they had a few unresolved issues with the AAI.
21/12/13 S. Sujatha/Deccan Chronicle
