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Airport information for Bhubaneswar Airport Country: India Location: Bhubaneswar Coordinates: 20.14.00N / 085.49.00E IATA Code: BBI Timezone: GMT +5.3 Direct flights form Bhubaneswar Airport Direct flights to Bhubaneswar Airport Find connecting flights to Bhubaneswar Airport Find connecting flights from Bhubaneswar Airport

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Biju Patnaik Airport (IATA: BBI, ICAO: VEBS), also known as Bhubaneswar Airport, is located in the town of Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. It is now the only leading airport in Orissa. It is named after the former Chief Minister of Orissa Biju Patnaik, who was also a famed flyer and rebel.

Planned international airport

In holding with the rapid pace of industrial enterprise taking location in Orissa, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has late denoted a project for the building of a new incorporated international airport complex at Bhubaneswar by 2010. AAI will place over US $50 million (Rs. 2.5 billion) for this task that would do Biju Patnaik airport a leading airport in eastern India, and a viable choice to the 1 at Kolkata.

The state authority of Orissa has furnished 70 acres (280,000 m^two) for the enlargement of the landing track to 10,500 foot (3,200 m), to deal Boeing 747 aircraft. The landing track extension is anticipated to be commissioned in September 2006. The new depot construction will come after a modular project, with glass glazing, aerobridges with glass walls, and an inline luggage x-ray. The enlargement also includes construction a parallel cab landing track for the airport and raising freight care facilities that is able to deal up to 30 aircraft per 60 minute. A commercial complex for multiplex, storing complex, hotel and other commercial organizations under the public-private partnership (PPP) near the airport, to back up 500 riders at a clip.

London ground Global Technical Advisory (GTA) has been inquired to set up a master programme for upgradation of Bhubaneswar airport as the AAI desires to do this the most good in eastern India.

AAI will also establish a 2nd leading airport in the western district of Orissa, at Jharsuguda.

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