Chennai: The state government on Friday said the city would soon get a second airport with an annual passenger-handling capacity of 40 million.
"The government will establish an international airport with a capacity to handle four crore passengers per year in the suburbs of Chennai," deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam told an audience at property expo FAIRPRO 2018.
The statement was a reiteration of the state's commitment to a new facility that will cater to twice as many flyers as the current airport at Meenambakkam, which has no scope to expand capacity.
It lifted spirits of the real estate industry - yet to emerge from recent turbulence of its own and a dip in demand - but did not include specifics on the location of the new airport or set a time frame for its development.
This couldn’t have been more disappointing for the civil aviation industry or regular flyers, given that the government had — under pressure from the Centre to develop a new facility airport because of the limitations of the existing facility — held two high-level meetings with Airports Authority of India on the issue in 2017 and stated that it would identify a new location by December 31, only to renege on on the pledge.
24/02/18 Times of India
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"The government will establish an international airport with a capacity to handle four crore passengers per year in the suburbs of Chennai," deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam told an audience at property expo FAIRPRO 2018.
The statement was a reiteration of the state's commitment to a new facility that will cater to twice as many flyers as the current airport at Meenambakkam, which has no scope to expand capacity.
It lifted spirits of the real estate industry - yet to emerge from recent turbulence of its own and a dip in demand - but did not include specifics on the location of the new airport or set a time frame for its development.
This couldn’t have been more disappointing for the civil aviation industry or regular flyers, given that the government had — under pressure from the Centre to develop a new facility airport because of the limitations of the existing facility — held two high-level meetings with Airports Authority of India on the issue in 2017 and stated that it would identify a new location by December 31, only to renege on on the pledge.
24/02/18 Times of India
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