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Madurai Airport
Airport Directory » India » Madurai » Madurai AirportAirport information for Madurai AirportCountry: IndiaLocation: Madurai Coordinates: 09.50.00N / 078.05.00E IATA Code: IXM Timezone: GMT +5.3 Direct flights form Madurai Airport Direct flights to Madurai Airport Find connecting flights to Madurai Airport Find connecting flights from Madurai Airport |
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Madurai Airport (IATA: IXM, ICAO: VOMD) is a public airport assisting Madurai, in the province of Tamil Nadu, India. The airport is turn up approximately 13 kilometre (8.1 mi) from the Madurai railroad terminal. It is assisted by 4 air hose, and has connectivity to Bangalore, Ahmadabad,Goa, Chennai, Mumbai, Trivandrum, Cochin and Pune. June 2009 will witness the 1st international voyage from Madurai. Expecting majority freight traffic from 2010.
History
Madurai Airport was constituted in 1957, antecedently British used this airport for position Madurai.
Air traffic
As per CII projection, the rider traffic would touch 3.01 hundred thousand in 2006 and 6.15 hundred thousand in 2011 from 1.58 hundred thousand in 2005, if the airport got international. International and domestic freight motion is also projected to turn. At present, riders from the southern lands have to hit Chennai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli or Thiruvananthapuram to take international voyages. A major ball of rider traffic to the Gulf and the Southeast Asian states in these airports is from southward Tamil Nadu. With work on the Sethusamudram labor going on in full steam and the possibility of Madurai acquiring an information engineering parkland, and Nanguneri and Thoothukudi special functioning zones, unveiling of international voyages has get a necessity.
Facilities and Expectations
K. Ramalingam, Regional Executive Director (Southern Region), Airports Authority of India, had gone on enter, that except for in-migration installations, all other base was available at the airport and, if claimed, functionaries is able to be deviate from Tiruchirapalli and Thiruvananthapuram. But he made it clear that the quest for upgrading should come up from the air hose
Development
A series of development and enlargement labors costing Rs. 150 crore, the set up of Madurai's own air hose, Paramount Airways, and mega labors line up for the southern lands pointed to upgrading of the airport. But the prime quantity claim currently is at smallest a duo of international voyages from Madurai.
Phase-I
Work on the upgrading of Madurai airport is in advancement. The upgrading was be after phase-wise. Currently,the reaching and going capacity of the depot construction is 50 riders each.
Phase-I work will include enlargement of the landing track from 5,990 foot (1,826 m) to 7,500 foot (2,286 m), creative activity of an isolation ground and 5 parkland ground. The cost of this phase I clinical trial around Rs 22 crore. The contract was presented to PNCRDS, an Agra-based syndicate. This stage was finished by December 2006. Work on building of a Rs 2-crore firehouse within the airport premises is in advancement.
Phase-II
The enlargement of the depot construction is take up in phase-II. Construction of depot construction is in advancement.
Madurai is 1 of the 35 non-metro airports under upgradation. The airport has named Axis Bank and Vienna airport pool to survey the feasibleness of town side development to clear non-aeronautical gross.
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