Rs 1K crore expansion plan for Kolkata airport

KOLKATA: A massive surge in flyers’ count in Kolkata airport over the past four years has sent Airports Authority of India (AAI) planners scurrying to the drawing board to prepare an expansion blueprint. With the integrated terminal, which has a capacity of 24 million passengers per year, set to get saturated next year, four years ahead of initial projection, AAI is bracing to pump in more than Rs 1,000 crore to raise the annual capacity by a further 9 million passengers. AAI had invested Rs 2,325 crore in the integrated terminal that was commissioned in 2013.
Speaking to TOI, Kolkata airport director Kaushik Bhattacharya said a decision had been taken to demolish the old domestic terminal to create space for a new terminal that would increase the annual passenger handling capacity to 33 million.