Tiruchi: With a robust growth recorded in passenger and freight movement, the Tiruchi international airport has emerged as one of the fast growing non-metro airports in the country.
Catering essentially to select South, South East Asian, and West Asian destinations this profit-making airport has seen a steady rise in overseas flight services of certain low-cost foreign carriers spurring growth.
Serving as a hub for a large workforce of central and southern districts employed in West Asia and South East Asia, Tiruchi is unique among non-metro airports with more overseas operations than domestic connectivity.
Financial year 2014-15 was a landmark period for the airport when the overall passenger traffic crossed the one million mark with the volume of export cargo despatched exceeding 4,700 tonnes.
International passenger traffic clocked 25 per cent growth last fiscal because of the increase in overseas flight services with patronage being 90 per cent in all airlines, say airport authorities.
Kuala Lumpur–bound Air Asia with 21 services a week tops among the foreign airlines in passenger and cargo movement. Operating two flights a day in the Tiruchi–Colombo- Tiruchi sector is the Sri Lankan Airlines with the Air India Express plying in the Tiruchi – Singapore and Tiruchi – Dubai sectors.
30/07/15 The Hindu
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Catering essentially to select South, South East Asian, and West Asian destinations this profit-making airport has seen a steady rise in overseas flight services of certain low-cost foreign carriers spurring growth.
Serving as a hub for a large workforce of central and southern districts employed in West Asia and South East Asia, Tiruchi is unique among non-metro airports with more overseas operations than domestic connectivity.
Financial year 2014-15 was a landmark period for the airport when the overall passenger traffic crossed the one million mark with the volume of export cargo despatched exceeding 4,700 tonnes.
International passenger traffic clocked 25 per cent growth last fiscal because of the increase in overseas flight services with patronage being 90 per cent in all airlines, say airport authorities.
Kuala Lumpur–bound Air Asia with 21 services a week tops among the foreign airlines in passenger and cargo movement. Operating two flights a day in the Tiruchi–Colombo- Tiruchi sector is the Sri Lankan Airlines with the Air India Express plying in the Tiruchi – Singapore and Tiruchi – Dubai sectors.
30/07/15 The Hindu
