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Gannavaram airport ready to handle Pushkaralu rush.
The Gannavaram airport is ready for the extra operations expected during the Krishna Pushkaralu, said airport director G Madhusudana Rao.
Vijayawada: The Gannavaram airport is ready for the extra operations expected during the Krishna Pushkaralu, said airport director G Madhusudana Rao.
Speaking to the members of the Andhra Pradesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Federation, here on Monday, Madhusudana Rao said that he had already informed the airlines operators about the preparedness of the airport for the unscheduled operations during Pushkaralu.
He said that the interim passenger terminal is also getting ready for operations and asserted that the airline operators and the passengers would make use of it.
The terminal would be kept open for the Pushkaralu, he asserted. He further said that they have constructed 10 parking bases in addition to the existing six parking bases.
Out of these ten, five would also be ready for the Krishna Pushkaralu, he said and asserted that the airport thus would be able to provide more parking space for the unscheduled services during holy event.
Rao said that the Krishna district administration had agreed to hand over 698 acres of land to the airport by end of this month. The airport required this land for its expansion including the runway, he said.
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- Says Indigo expressed its willingness to make Vijayawada airport as its cargo base for the South
The airport had also proposed construction of a regular terminal for the domestic and international passengers at a cost of Rs 535 crore. This would be ready in the next three years, he asserted and also proposed a 10 floor new tower in the airport in the place of the existing one.
The new tower would make the monitoring of the services easy for the staff, he asserted. The airport director said that they have also started construction of the cargo building and it would be ready for operations from October this year.
The Indigo had already expressed its willingness to make Vijayawada airport as its cargo base for the South, he said and maintained that the cargo operations would add to the annual revenue of the airport.
The airport was earning Rs 6 crore per year, he said and emphasised the need to increase the revenue by adding more domestic and international services.
