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Airport Directory » India » Tiruchirapally » Civil AirportAirport information for Civil AirportCountry: IndiaLocation: Tiruchirapally Coordinates: 10.45.54N / 078.42.48E IATA Code: TRZ Timezone: GMT +5.3 Direct flights form Civil Airport Direct flights to Civil Airport Find connecting flights to Civil Airport Find connecting flights from Civil Airport |
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Tiruchirapalli Airport or Trichy Airport (IATA: TRZ, ICAO: VOTR) is a leading airport largely assisting Tiruchirapalli and adjacent lands in the province of Tamil Nadu, India. The airport, turn up on the NH 210 Tiruchirapalli-Rameswaram main road, is 5 kilometre (3.1 mi) southward of the town center. The airport assists domestic and international destinations.
History
AirIndia ExpressThe airport, constructed by British during World War II,was chiefly used by the British air force during the conflict.The airport was given permission for civilian functioning after the conflict,though the existent rider traffic set about in early 1980s. Air Lanka set about its functioning in 1981 with a weekly voyage to Colombo and later increasing its functioning to 11 voyages a hebdomad. Indian Airlines start out its functioning to Chennai and mid-east commonwealths in mid 1990s. The airport currently deals voyages to various destinations including Chennai, Colombo, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Thiruvananthapuram.
Integrated Terminal Building
The New Integrated Terminal (Inaugurated on February 21,2009 and set about functioning from June 1, 2009) has an area of 11777 sq m and is do of glass and steel building having modern rider friendly installations such as central air status system, aerobridges,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, auto parkland, etc.
The Integrated Terminal Building has extremum 60 minute rider deal capacity of 400 riders and one-year deal capacity of 3.24 hundred thousand.It has two aerobridges, twelve Check-in counters, one X light beam scanners (for luggage). It also has 8+8=16 Immigration Counters(Dep. + Arr.), 2+4=6 Custom Counters(Dep. +Arr.), two Security check out units and three Conveyor Belt – reaching (47m each).
The enlargement of apron has been finished to provide for parkland of aggregative seven nos. (three nos.Category 'D' and four nos.Category 'C' type of aircraft from being capacity of three nos. Category 'C' type of aircraft.
Expansion
Tiruchirapalli Airport is on Rs 150 crore enlargement way since 2004. The landing track was spread out from 6,000 foot (1,829 m) to 8,136 foot (2,480 m). The apron was spread out to maintain ten aircraft and new taxi strip was build at cost of Rs 40 cr. The building of 80 crs New Integrated Terminal Building with world category characteristics has been finished and kick off on 21st of February 2009.It dwells of two aerobridges and proviso for an additional entrance.The Glass ATC tower with modern characteristics is under building.The being depot construction shall be changed over into a Cargo Terminal for which Blue Print is ready.
Further, Tiruchirapalli Airport is 1 of the non-metro airports take for Rs 200 cr town side development on public-private partnership framework. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already named a legal adviser for this and will shortly let go a sensible for the work. AAI has advised Phase II enlargement on 1,000 acres (4.0 kilometretwo). The enlargement includes continuing the landing track to 12,500 foot (3,810 m), building of freight, depots, parkland embayment for aircraft care and other works. The state authority would supply district free to AAI for the phase II enlargement. The Phase II enlargement has been pending for a yr due to bring down acquisition issues. People in and around the airport have opposed the travel to get their district. The enlargement derived impulse late with the land disposal make up one's mind to plow ahead with district acquisition opposite to the airport and also possible closing of the Tiruchirapalli-Pudukottai main road.
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