Nashik: For over eight months after inauguration in March this year, the revamped air terminal at the Ozar airport in the campus of the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), about 20 km from Nashik city, is waiting for air service to be revived. If the optimism of private airline operators, who visited the HAL complex two days ago materialises, Nashik will return on the airmap after a gap of about five years.
The upgrade of the airport terminal building had been taken up jointly by the HAL and the state government in 2012. The deadline was December 2013, but it got delayed and the terminal building was inaugurated on March 3, 2014, by then Union minister Praful Patel, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. The move was largely viewed as a political move that miserably failed at the hustings.
During the inauguration, there was talk of the "tremendous" potential of passenger traffic from Nashik as well as the use of the airport for other purposes like emergency landing and night parking of aircraft that is, at present, diverted from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
15/11/14 Rakshit Sonawane/Times of India
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The upgrade of the airport terminal building had been taken up jointly by the HAL and the state government in 2012. The deadline was December 2013, but it got delayed and the terminal building was inaugurated on March 3, 2014, by then Union minister Praful Patel, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. The move was largely viewed as a political move that miserably failed at the hustings.
During the inauguration, there was talk of the "tremendous" potential of passenger traffic from Nashik as well as the use of the airport for other purposes like emergency landing and night parking of aircraft that is, at present, diverted from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
15/11/14 Rakshit Sonawane/Times of India
