Kochi: Kannur airport, the fourth international airport in Kerala, is set to take wings by the second quarter of 2016.
“We hope the airport will be functional by April 2016,” G. Chandramouli, Managing Director of the Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL) told Business Line. “The first trial flight will take off in mid-December 2015.”
Work on the State government-promoted airport, hailed as the largest infrastructural initiative in the North Malabar region of State, has already begun. Located at Mattannur, some 25 km from Kannur, the airport aims to serve people in the northern districts of Kerala as well as Coorg and Mysore in Karnataka. It might attract passengers from Kozhikode and Mangalore airports too.
Conceived in 1998, the airport takes the public-private-participation (PPP) route and is being built in the BOO (build, operate and own) mode. Of the 2,000 acres of land required for the Rs 1,800-crore project, 1,200 acres have been taken possession of. Of this, 800 acres form part of the government’s equity in the project.
10/12/13 Business Line
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“We hope the airport will be functional by April 2016,” G. Chandramouli, Managing Director of the Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL) told Business Line. “The first trial flight will take off in mid-December 2015.”
Work on the State government-promoted airport, hailed as the largest infrastructural initiative in the North Malabar region of State, has already begun. Located at Mattannur, some 25 km from Kannur, the airport aims to serve people in the northern districts of Kerala as well as Coorg and Mysore in Karnataka. It might attract passengers from Kozhikode and Mangalore airports too.
Conceived in 1998, the airport takes the public-private-participation (PPP) route and is being built in the BOO (build, operate and own) mode. Of the 2,000 acres of land required for the Rs 1,800-crore project, 1,200 acres have been taken possession of. Of this, 800 acres form part of the government’s equity in the project.
10/12/13 Business Line
