Thursday, August 10, 2023

Separate floors for arrival & departure at Bhopal airport

Bhopal: Realising the need to overcome the situation of regular congestion of vehicles, the Raja Bhoj airport will have arrival and departure terminals on different floors. As per the plan, the departure will be on the first floor while the arrival is to be brought down on the ground floor. A proposal has been sent to higher authorities in this regard.

As per the existing system, the arrival and departure both are on the same floor. Several times due to this, congestion of vehicles has been witnessed, troubling the travellers.

Talking to TOI, director of the airport, Ramji Awasthi said that Bhopal airport has planned to convert its existing office space in the basement of the existing terminal building into an arrival area.

"There was a need to make the arrangement at the airport. It has been noticed that the presence of both arrival and departure on the same floor created congestion of vehicles. Consequently, the passengers suffered and this needed to be rectified," said Awasthi.

Awasthi said that in order to make smooth exit and entrance of the flyers it is planned to bring such changes. "Our objective is to provide the best comfort to the passengers at the airport. The proposed arrival will be 7000 sqm," he said.

"The existing arrival will be converted into a departure area which will lead to reduce the congestion both inside the SHA as well as towards the city side," he said.

Raja Bhoj airport has been ranked No 1 among the airports in tier-two cities for the first time ever in the recently-released Customer Satisfaction Survey by the Airport Authority of India (AAI).

10/08/2023 Ramendra Singh/Times of India

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