The new domestic and international terminals at the Chennai airport were opened for public use by Vice-President Hamid Ansari. The Airport Authority of India (AAI) built the terminals at a cost of Rs 2,000-crore to enhance capacity. The existing terminals had a capacity to handle six million domestic and three million international passengers.
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Kolkata airport terminal
In Kolkata, the new integrated terminal of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport may take more than two months to be fully operational with all the promised facilities in place. On January 19, Airports Authority of India said that the airport would be operational by March.
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Delhi Airport Metro reopens
Delhi Airport Metro Express (DAMEPL) announced that the Airport Metro line resumed commercial operations at its regular timing from January 22. India's first Airport Express initially started its commercial operation on February 23, 2011.
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Bhubaneswar airport’s new terminal to be ready by mid Feb
The new terminal of the Biju Patnaik airport in Bhubaneswar, which is now waiting for international tag, is expected to be commissioned by middle of February. The domestic terminal will be ready by February 15 and the civil aviation department will inaugurate it, said Odisha Chief Secretary, Bijay Kumar Patnaik after reviewing the progress of the new terminal.
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Delhi Airport successfully handles record 73 ATMs/hour
Delhi Airport has started the year 2013 with a new milestone in its history registering 73 Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) in an hour on 24th January'13. It is the record number of air traffic movements ever made at any airport in India thanks to the efforts by the ATC team.
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Delhi Airport Metro Express runs again after 6 months
After a gap of six months, Reliance Infrastructure-run Delhi Airport Metro Express was back on track on January 22, bringing smiles on the faces of commuters looking for seamless travel to the airport. Commercial operations of the 23-km corridor that connects Connaught Place with Terminal-3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport resumed at 5.30 am and passengers were charged a flat rate of Rs 30 as an inaugural day offer.
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AI’s Dreamliner fleet to remain grounded till Feb 17
Newly bought six Boeing 787 Dreamliners of Air India would remain grounded till February 17, with further delays expected in the tests being carried out by US and Japanese authorities on the faulty lithium ion batteries used in the aircraft. This means that the newest aircraft in the airline fleet will remain grounded for a month as it was on January 17 that Air India had grounded its Boeing 787 fleet, after the DGCA issued a directive following an advisory by the US regulator Federal Aviation A
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More direct flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong by Cathay
Cathay Pacific would add more direct flights from Mumbai to Hong Kong from April. The Hong Kong-based full service airline will also introduce its new product line of the premium economy cabin on this route after launching it in Delhi and Chennai last year.
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Air India’s budget hits as Dreamliners grounded
It has been a week since the United StatesÂ’ regulator, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), asked airlines around the world to ground B787s due to battery problems. India's government-owned Air IndiaÂ’s (AI) grounding of its Boeing-787 Dreamliners has already started adding to the airlinesÂ’ fuel cost by around Rs 40 lakh daily, apart from forcing changes in flight schedules.
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HAL to be the lead integrator in MMRCA project
Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) would be the lead integrator for producing 108 multi-role combat aircraft in the country after French firm Dassault Aviation sought to play a bigger role in the multi-billion dollar project, said the Union Defence Ministry on January 21.