New Delhi: Allahabad nee Prayagraj will get a new civil “airport complex” on Sunday when Prime Minister Modi inaugurates the terminal and other infra created by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) in a record time of 11 months. A new terminal and four additional aircraft parking bays have been built at the Bamrauli Airport at a cost of Rs 164 crore. This terminal can handle upto 300 passengers in an hour and allows Allahabad to have more commercial flights just ahead of the Kumbh Mela that starts mid-January.
A team of top Union aviation ministry officials had last year gone to meet UP CM Yogi Adityanath to discuss how to augment state’s airport infra. During discussions, the CM wondered if AAI could augment Allahabad’s airport infra in time for the Kumb Mela.
“The time remaining was very less, just over 11 months. We decided to take this project as a challenge. It was not just building a new civil airport terminal but other infra was also required to be added like more aircraft parking bays. That project is now complete and will be inaugurated on Sunday,” AAI chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra said.
Under the Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik-II (UDAN) of regional connectivity scheme (RCS) where fares for flights are capped at Rs 2,500 per hour, AAI has awarded several routes linking Allahabad to 13 other cities. “Routes connecting Allahabad to Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun Gorakhpur, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Raipur have been awarded. Out of these, flights (between Allahabad) and Lucknow, Patna, Nagpur and Indore have commenced. A non-RCS flight from Delhi to Allahabad has been operated by Alliance Air for a long time,” said Mohapatra.
15/12/18 Times of India
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A team of top Union aviation ministry officials had last year gone to meet UP CM Yogi Adityanath to discuss how to augment state’s airport infra. During discussions, the CM wondered if AAI could augment Allahabad’s airport infra in time for the Kumb Mela.
“The time remaining was very less, just over 11 months. We decided to take this project as a challenge. It was not just building a new civil airport terminal but other infra was also required to be added like more aircraft parking bays. That project is now complete and will be inaugurated on Sunday,” AAI chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra said.
Under the Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik-II (UDAN) of regional connectivity scheme (RCS) where fares for flights are capped at Rs 2,500 per hour, AAI has awarded several routes linking Allahabad to 13 other cities. “Routes connecting Allahabad to Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun Gorakhpur, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune and Raipur have been awarded. Out of these, flights (between Allahabad) and Lucknow, Patna, Nagpur and Indore have commenced. A non-RCS flight from Delhi to Allahabad has been operated by Alliance Air for a long time,” said Mohapatra.
15/12/18 Times of India
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