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Chennai Airport
Airport Directory » India » Chennai » Chennai AirportChennai International Airport (IATA: MAA, ICAO: VOMM) (Tamil: சென்னை சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம்) is turn up in Tirusulam, 7 kilometre (4.3 mi) southward of Chennai, India. It is the 3rd biggest international gateway into the state and the 3rd busiest airport in India after Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, and the independent air hub for South India, deal around 12 million riders in 2007 and assisting more than 50 different air hose. It is also a hub for Jet Airways, Kingfisher Red, Air India and Paramount Airways. It is also an eminent freight hub for the state, after Mumbai.
History
The old depot at MeenambakkamChennai had 1 of the 1st airports in India, and was the final destination of Air India's 1st voyage from Bombay (Mumbai) via Belgaum in 1954. The 1st rider depot was made at the northeast side of the field, which lies in the suburban area of Meenambakkam due to which it was bring up to as Meenambakkam Airport. A new depot complex was later made at Tirusulam, further southward near Pallavaram to which, rider functioning were changed over. The old depot construction is currently used as a freight depot and is the ground for the Indian messenger corporation Blue Dart.
Structure
Chennai Airport at nighttimeChennai International Airport dwells of 3 depots: The old depot at Meenambakkam is used for freight, while the new rider depot complex near Pallavaram is used for rider functioning. The rider depot complex dwells of the domestic and international depots interlinked by a link up construction, which houses administrative business office and a eating house. Although the building complex is 1 uninterrupted building, it was made incrementally, with the Kamaraj and Anna depots being added in 1988 to the pre-existing Meenambakkam depot.
The 1st division to be made was the international depot which had 2 aerobridges (jetways), come after by the domestic depot with 3 aerobridges. After the pass completion of the domestic depot, the old depot at Meenambakkam was used solely for load. Recently the international depot was continued further southward by adding a new block which includes 3 aerobridges. At present, the new international block is used for going while the older construction is used for reaches.
The airport has the honor of being the 1st ISO 9000 demonstrated airport in the land, which it had in 2001.
Facts and Figures
Anna International TerminalCurrently, Chennai airport deals approximately 25 aircraft motilities every 60 minute, which shall be saturated by the yr 2014-15. However, extremum 60 minute traffic deal capableness shall be wash up much earlier than that. Anna International Terminal dealt 3,410,253 riders in 2007-08 and has the capability of care 3M riders each year, Already it has stand out the rider deal capacity. Similarly, Kamaraj Domestic Terminal, which dealt 7,249,501 riders in 2007-08, has the capability to deal 6 million riders each year. Here once again the depot claim far surpasses the capacity. In all Chennai airport managed a capacity of 10,659,754 riders in 2007 - 08. The airport dealt load of a aggregative of 270,608 t in 2007 - 08.
Modernisation and Expansion
The Chennai Airport has been slated for modernization and enlargement. The works are to be carry out by the Airports Authority of India and include the creative activity of a parallel landing track, taxi strip, aprons and new rider deal constructions. The enlargement works will affect the acquisition of district in nearby area . The enlargement of the being airport shall be take up at Manapakkam, Kolapakkam, Gerugambakkam and Tharapakkam in Sriperumbudur taluk after a declaration to this result was followed by the authority.
The authority would supply suitable compensation to 947 homes in these area and also rehabilitation to them. The rehabilitation of the homes shall be done in the 1st stage of the enlargement work itself.
The modernization and reconstituting is anticipated to cost around Rs 2,350 crore, of which the cost of building of the landing track, taxi strip and apron shall be around Rs 1,100 crore, while the cost of building of the depot construction, load construction, auto parkland and human face lift up shall be Rs 1,250 crore.
As per the modernization program, the secondary landing track shall be made over the Adyar river by averages of a span. The landing track will continue across Adyar river. A span shall be made over the river to adapt the landing track and a taxi strip. This does Chennai Airport, the only international airport in India to have a landing track across the river. This shall be the 1st landing track to come up over a span in the commonwealth; In Mumbai only an stop of the landing track is over Mithi river. The secondary landing track extension will cost around Rs 430 crore and shall be finished in 2010.
The advised Chennai Metro Rail Project will link the Chennai International Airport to various divisions of the City. Tentatively, the labor is programmed for pass completion in the financial yr 2013-2014.
Proposed New Integrated Terminal
The project is a collaborative attempt of 4 companies. While the Hargreaves Associates has done the landscape project while Frederic Schwartz company is responsible for the project of constructions on the landside of the landing track. The Creative Group shall be the local designers for the labor. The advised project shall be plugged in with the being depot project components. It was earlier accounted that the new depot constructions will have a deal capacity of 10 million riders and when incorporated with being depots will supply for a deal capacity of 23 million riders a yr. The depot constructions is anticipated to have an area of approximately 1, 40,000 sq. m. with 140 check-in counters and 60 in-migration counters and the 2 landing track shall be interlinked by a taxi strip. The New Integrated Terminal will have a Flyover Travelator linking the Domestic Terminal and International Terminal for a space of approximately one kilometre. It will have an elevated route on the top and a tube beneath which will have 2 Walkalators
Domestic Route map of ChennaiThe project points of the landing track are cared by the Airports Authority of India, while architecture companies are limited to projecting constructions on the landside of the landing track. The present proposal is parallel to the being landing track. The entire project as being coordinated around “2 boozer sustainable gardens” and the wing-like roofs assists compile rain and get division of the garden.
Proposed New Integrated Cargo Complex
An incorporated load complex shall be built in the load complex of the Chennai Airport. The complex shall be build, at a cost of Rs. 145 crore, in 15 calendar month. While the ground level would measure out 21,000 square meter, the 1st floor shall be built on 12,100 square meter. The new construction shall be used solely for import actions. Once the polite works were finished, the Automatic Storage and Retrieval System shall be set up. It would cost Rs. 75 crore.
Facts
- In 2007-08, the being airport dealt 1,15,865 aircraft movements and its capacity to deal aircraft motions is probably to be saturated by 2014-15.
- The being airport is able to deal approximately 25 aircraft motility per 60 minute and even after enlargement, the airport will acquire saturated by 2014-15 and the Greenfield Airport has to be ready by then. The same logic has been used in Mumbai, where the Navi Mumbai airport is to be ready by the clip, the being 1 acquires saturated around the same clip.
- The AAI is of the position that a logical thing shall be to build a new domestic depot and let simultaneous use of the cover landing track there. These things is able to take us through till the yr 2015.
New Greenfield Airport
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has denoted the launch of a new greenfield airport at Sriperumbudur and Tiruvallur taluks, apart from the enlargement of the being airport at Tirusulam.
The greenfield airport would come up on 3,486.66 acres (14.1100 kilometretwo), enlargement of Chennai airport shall be done on 1,069.99 acres (4.3301 kilometretwo) at an approximated cost of Rs 2,000 crore.
Initially the work for the greenfield airports was to be committed to the Airports Authority of India (AAI). However, the greenfield airport, come up at Sriperumbudur near Chennai shall be germinated under a public-private partnership. The Prime Minister’s Committee has also asked for a pre-feasibility account for this airport.
The greenfield airport will have 4 landing track. Eyeing Chennai airport, guiding global airport developers are faking confederations with Indian participants for tender for the labor. The corporations interested in the labor include Singapore Changi Airport, Macquarie Group, GMR Group, GVK Industries Ltd. and Tata Group.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has clear up that “there is no part for the AAI in germinating the greenfield airport near Chennai”.
The new airport is anticipated to be finished within 28 calendar month of work starting time.
Transport link up
The airport is located on the busy Grand Southern Trunk Road (National Highway 45) and is also assisted by the Airport station (Tirusulam) on the Suburban railway system web. The advised Metro Rail System (Chennai Metro) will also link the Airport with other eminent locations in Chennai.
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