New Delhi, Jan 28:
Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa
will inaugurate the modernised Chennai airport on January 31.
The Chennai airport modernisation is being undertaken by the Airports
Authority of India.
second airport
This will be the second airport after Kolkata that AAI has modernised
and opened in the last few days.
passengers
After modernisation, the Chennai airport will have a handling capacity
of 10 million domestic and four million international passengers.
Its overall handling capacity after completion will be 23 million,
including the exiting capacity.
The Centre, in April 2007, decided to upgrade the Chennai airport to
international standards.
The AAI had developed the master plan and design of the terminal through
global architectural design competition.
An inter-Ministerial group had approved these plans, which focused on
enhancing the runway capacity, apron capacity and the capacity of terminal
buildings.
The project consists of construction of a new domestic terminal
building, extension of the existing Anna international terminal and the secondary
runway across the Adyar River.
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