Works to build India’s ‘first private greenfield airport’ here will be completed before June next and the airport will become operational soon after, a senior Karaikal Airport Private Limited official said today. <\/p>\n
About 350 acres of land out of the proposed 526 acres for the airport project had already been procured, KAPL Chairman J V Chowdhary told reporters here. <\/p>\n
“Of the 60 acres of land required for runway construction, we have procured 45 acres and the remaining 15 acres will be procured within a month,” he said. <\/p>\n
Runway construction works will begin immediately thereafter and all construction works will be completed before June 2018, he said. <\/p>\n
The company had obtained all necessary clearances from regulatory agencies, including permission from the Civil Aviation Ministry and no-objection certificate from the Puducherry government and has now started making preparations for setting up the airport. <\/p>\n
“To start with, in the first phase of construction, the airport will have a 1.25-km runway, which could accommodate small 19 to 30 seat aircraft,” he said. <\/p>\n
The runway would be expanded to accommodate bigger planes in the subsequent phases. <\/p>\n
Chowdhary said KAPL was talking to operators like Air Odisha and Air Deccan to operate planes to and from Karaikal airport. <\/p>\n
“We have planned to adopt state-of-the-art communication technology and equipment for this airport. Once it becomes functional, it will be one of the best small airports in the country,” he said. <\/p>\n
Chowdhary said the airport construction was dragging since 2011 mainly due to delays in land acquisition. <\/p>\n
“Now that we have acquired adequate land for the first phase of construction, we will get started soon,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Works to build India’s ‘first private greenfield airport’ here will be completed before June next and the airport will become operational soon after, a senior Karaikal Airport Private Limited official said today. About 350 acres of land out of the proposed 526 acres for the airport project had already been procured, KAPL Chairman J V Chowdhary told reporters here. “Of the 60 acres of land required for runway construction, we have procured 45 acres and the remaining 15 acres will be procured within a month,” he said. Runway construction works will begin immediately thereafter and all construction works will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}