Hyderabad: The old airport at Begumpet is in the eye of a storm following a reported plan by the Indian Air Force to take control of it. The Airports Authority staff, Associations and Guilds of AAI, Southern region Chennai, AA Employees union and other associates, which got a wind of the development, lodged a strong protest. They requested the Centre, ministry of civil aviation, Union defence ministry, Airports Authority of India and the Telangana government not to hand over the airport to IAF.
Airport employees became suspicious when a group of senior IAF officials had inspected the Begumpet airport runway, periphery road, communication tower last month and certain developments took place in the capital on the issue subsequently. While the AAI staff lodged a protest over attempts to handover the airport to air force, IAF authorities refused to comment.
“It is reliably understood that the Ministry of Civil Aviation has taken an unilateral decision to handover the land and assets of AAI at Begumpet airport to IAF for reasons best known to them. The action is similar to closing down of commercial operations here," S.R. Santhanam, president, All India Airports Authority Employees Union (AAEU) told this newspaper here on Tuesday.
08/04/15 Deccan Chronicle
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Airport employees became suspicious when a group of senior IAF officials had inspected the Begumpet airport runway, periphery road, communication tower last month and certain developments took place in the capital on the issue subsequently. While the AAI staff lodged a protest over attempts to handover the airport to air force, IAF authorities refused to comment.
“It is reliably understood that the Ministry of Civil Aviation has taken an unilateral decision to handover the land and assets of AAI at Begumpet airport to IAF for reasons best known to them. The action is similar to closing down of commercial operations here," S.R. Santhanam, president, All India Airports Authority Employees Union (AAEU) told this newspaper here on Tuesday.
08/04/15 Deccan Chronicle
