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Trivandrum Airport
Airport Directory » India » Thiruvananthapuram » Trivandrum AirportTrivandrum International Airport (IATA: TRV, ICAO: VOTV) is the 1st airport of Kerala, India, turn up in Thiruvananthapuram. It is about 3.7 klicks (2.3 mi) west from the town center and 16 klicks (9.9 mi) from Kovalam beach.
Trivandrum International Airport has direct voyages to many international towns like Kuwait, Dubai, Singapore, Malé, Colombo, Sharjah, Muscat, Bahrain, Qatar, Jeddah and Abu Dhabi. It is connected with Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Goa and Bangalore by domestic voyages. The airport is a convenient point for hop-skip onto neighbor SAARC states like Sri Lanka and Maldives as good as to the Middle East and South East Asian nations.
History
The airport was constituted in 1932 as division of the Kerala Flying Club (under the enterprise of Colonel Goda Varma Raja). International functioning were started by Air India to towns in the Middle East like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Doha, Kuwait City, Bahrain and Dahran during the latter one-half of the 1970s & early 80s. Very before long, Air Lanka (currently Sri Lankan) & Air Male get together the rush. On January 1, 1991 it was upgraded to an international airport, surviving the 1st such airport in India outside the metropolitan towns.
Expansion Plans
Work on a new 3rd depot to provide for the increasing burden of international riders is get down at 2006. Decks have been cleared for the building of a world-class depot for the Trivandrum international airport with the Union Government giving its nod for the Rs.258-crore airport modernization labor.
The depot, being build by Airports Authority of India (AAI) on the town side, will give a large impulsion to the development of the town, the IT sector and the touristry industry in the southern lands. The three-storeyed construction with an area of 20,000 sq. meters, projected by a pool of 3 corporations, is of tubular project. All modern installations such as moving staircase, lifts and aerobridges shall be furnished. The depot shall be able to manage the riders of 2 A-300s and 1 Boeing 747 aircraft at a clip.
To enable the riders to check in at anybody counter, a Common Users Terminal Equipment (CUTE) shall be set up. X-ray machines shall be attached to the side of the conveyor belts for faster clearance of luggage. The check-in area will have a floor area of 950 sq. meters and the reaching area 570 sq. meters. The one-year deal capacity of the depot shall be 13.3 hundred thousand. The gate to the depot shall be from the Chaka-Eenchakkal route. A span shall be constructed across the Parvathy Puthanar canal to relate the proposed new depot to the Kazhakuttam-Inchivila NH 47. get around.
The new depot is anticipated to open by June 2009.
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