Kochi: The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) will introduce 15 new aero-bridges, on a par with other Metro city airports in the country, at the new international terminal being built at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore, which would be completed this fiscal. According to V J Kurien, managing director,CIAL, the move is aimed at providing better facilities and connectivity to passengers inside the airport.
“We are planning to purchase 15 aero-bridges for easy and convenient transit of passengers from the terminal building to the aircraft and vice versa. At present, three are only five aero-bridges in the international terminal and the bulk order is being made by taking note of the leap to be made by CIAL in international passenger handling in the next 20 years, he said. At present the airport is the fourth largest in the country in terms of international passenger handling.
Besides, the move assumes significance in the wake of the Customs revelation that ground handling staff in the airport involved in the gold smuggling cases had misused the lack of enough aero-bridges inside the airport to source the contraband from international passengers when they were taken to the terminal by ferry buses inside the airport.
18/08/15 Dhinesh Kallungal/New Indian Express
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“We are planning to purchase 15 aero-bridges for easy and convenient transit of passengers from the terminal building to the aircraft and vice versa. At present, three are only five aero-bridges in the international terminal and the bulk order is being made by taking note of the leap to be made by CIAL in international passenger handling in the next 20 years, he said. At present the airport is the fourth largest in the country in terms of international passenger handling.
Besides, the move assumes significance in the wake of the Customs revelation that ground handling staff in the airport involved in the gold smuggling cases had misused the lack of enough aero-bridges inside the airport to source the contraband from international passengers when they were taken to the terminal by ferry buses inside the airport.
18/08/15 Dhinesh Kallungal/New Indian Express
