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Raja Sansi Airport
Airport Directory » India » Amritsar » Raja Sansi AirportAirport information for Raja Sansi AirportCountry: IndiaLocation: Amritsar Coordinates: 31.42.00N / 074.48.00E IATA Code: ATQ Timezone: GMT +5.3 Direct flights form Raja Sansi Airport Direct flights to Raja Sansi Airport Find connecting flights to Raja Sansi Airport Find connecting flights from Raja Sansi Airport |
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Raja Sansi International Airport (IATA: ATQ, ICAO: VIAR), also known as Guru Ram Das International Airport, after Guru Ram Das Ji, the establisher of Amritsar, as good as Amritsar International Airport, is 11 kilometre north west from the town of Amritsar, India. It is turn up on the Amritsar-Ajnala Road, near the small town of Raja Sansi. It assists not only the town of Amritsar, but also the province of Punjab.
As a regime denominated international airport, the airport now deals approximately 90 commercial voyages a hebdomad, both international and domestic.
Expansion and redevelopment
The town of Amritsar has long stay the religious and holidaymaker center of Punjab, and the claim for a full operational international airport has increased in recent yr. A new complete reaches depot was kick off in September 2005, and a complete going depot has been operational since March 2006. This new depot is a immingle of modern and Indian projects, made of glass and steel, but with Indian curves and colors.
Amritsar Raja Sansi Airport (ATQ) has currently finished Phase II of its development.: New incorporated depot construction was kick off on February 25, 2009 at the Amritsar International Airport under modernization program to run across international criterion. The new Integrated Terminal Building at the Amritsar airport has an area of 40175 sq m (approx) compared to 12,770 antecedently.The newly-inaugurated depot construction is glass and steel building having modern rider friendly installations such as central air status system, inline X-ray luggage review system incorporated with the luggage conveyer system, moving staircase, public computer address system, Flight Information Display System (FIDS), CCTV for surveillance, check-in counters with Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE), auto parkland, etc.
The integrated depot construction at Amritsar have extremum 60 minute rider deal capacity of 1200 riders and one-year deal capacity of 14.6 hundred thousand riders. The integrated construction has 30 check-in counters, 4 X-ray scanners (for luggage); 26 in-migration Counters; 10 custom-made counters; twelve security check out stalls and 4 transporter – reaching. The apron has been continued to provide for parkland of aggregative of 14 aircraft (eight Category ‘E’, three Category ‘D’ and three Category ‘C’ type of aircraft) from the earlier capacity of 10 aircraft and beef up for parkland of Category ‘E’ type of aircraft. The going and reaching hallway have installation for duty free. The going hallway also adapts foreign currency exchange, book shop, eating place and other stores for the convenience of going away riders.:. Airport will also have:
- A trade name new freight care installation due to claims from exporters in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, who have no choice apart from Delhi which is far to a fault far off
- The advised location for the Permanent Perishable Cargo Centre is turn up close to the air freight complex, which has a capacity of 200 t per solar day
- Passenger depot construction size to be duplicate to 41,000 m².
- Four new aerobridges to be set up.
- Parking embayments to be increased from five to 14 by 2009.
- The landing track continued by 369 m to a aggregative length of 3,658 metres.
- A new auto parkland for riders and visitants
Air India has also had success on its Amritsar-Birmingham-Toronto voyages with the air hose upgrading the service from the current three weekly voyages to daily. It has late presented a direct daily service from Amritsar-London-Toronto. Traffic through Amritsar Airport is clearly turning quickly but has stagnated during the current fiscal crises.
The Airport Authority of India has shortlisted 5 bidders from the initial listing of 23 bidders for the modernisation of the Amritsar airport. These include
- Reliance Energy Limited-AAACPL-RADPL-ASA
- Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide
- TADL-Changi Airports-Tata Power
- Lanco Infratech Ltd - Genting (Singapore) Pte Ltd
- L&T-IDPL-Unique Consortium
The development and modernisation programmes are only for the city-side of these non-metro airports and are anticipated to be finished by 2010, through public-private partnership (PPP). AAI will take care of the airside development of the airports.
The authority desires the pool of the take bidder and the AAI to commercially function the airports and back up their depot constructions. It would also be responsible to evolve and function freight installations at these airports, besides attempting the city-side development.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already location say for equipments claimed for ILS-II, which shall be imported from Germany-based voyage safety equipment company Thalef. The equipment is anticipated to come within 2 calendar month coming after which the committee function will take location.
The airport modernisation function is division of the upgrade function of 35 non-metro airports in the country by 2010.
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