Pune: The airport officials are planning to rent around 15 buses and provide them to airlines to ferry passengers to and from the terminal building to the aircraft.
“We are trying to get the new system in place and are talking to all the airlines. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) intends to rent the buses for use by the airlines. If any airline intends to use the buses, they can contact AAI and they will be provided to them at a cost per passenger basis. While the details are being reviewed presently, we have started to talk to the airlines in this connection. Some of them have evinced interest while we are yet to get confirmation from a few. Once all the airlines agree, a commercial tender will be floated in this connection,” an official told TOI. The official said that while regulations regarding the use of buses in the airport’s apron area were being relaxed, the plan will also earn AAI additional income.
"“With the apron area of the airport being small in size, it doesn’t allow free movement of coaches all the time like in other airports. However, there have been demands from passengers and we have been tryinWWg to relax the norms. We have made some calculations and feel that each airline will need at least two buses,” the official pointed out.
Airlines which operate maximum number of flights from Pune airport are IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet. Airlines like GoAir, Vistara, Air India and Alliance Air too have considerable number of flights from the airport. German airline Lufthansa has one flight from Pune but operates six times a week.
25/06/18 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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“We are trying to get the new system in place and are talking to all the airlines. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) intends to rent the buses for use by the airlines. If any airline intends to use the buses, they can contact AAI and they will be provided to them at a cost per passenger basis. While the details are being reviewed presently, we have started to talk to the airlines in this connection. Some of them have evinced interest while we are yet to get confirmation from a few. Once all the airlines agree, a commercial tender will be floated in this connection,” an official told TOI. The official said that while regulations regarding the use of buses in the airport’s apron area were being relaxed, the plan will also earn AAI additional income.
"“With the apron area of the airport being small in size, it doesn’t allow free movement of coaches all the time like in other airports. However, there have been demands from passengers and we have been tryinWWg to relax the norms. We have made some calculations and feel that each airline will need at least two buses,” the official pointed out.
Airlines which operate maximum number of flights from Pune airport are IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet. Airlines like GoAir, Vistara, Air India and Alliance Air too have considerable number of flights from the airport. German airline Lufthansa has one flight from Pune but operates six times a week.
25/06/18 Joy Sengupta/Times of India
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