{"id":55036,"date":"2016-02-19T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=55036"},"modified":"2016-02-19T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T11:34:53","slug":"cochin-airports-3rd-terminal-to-open-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cochin-airports-3rd-terminal-to-open-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Cochin airport&#8217;s 3rd terminal to open next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third terminal at the Cochin International Airport here will be opened next Friday by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, an official said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The brand new terminal is built in a record time of two years over an area of 15 lakh sqft and will handle 4,000 passengers,&#8221; the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) official said. <\/p>\n<p>Opened in 1999, CIAL is the country&#8217;s first greenfield airport built and managed in the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. <\/p>\n<p>It is the biggest of the three international airports in Kerala. During 2015, a record 70 lakh passengers, both domestic and international, used the airport in more than 41,000 aircraft movements of various airlines. <\/p>\n<p>The airport has been making profits consistently since financial year 2003-04 and has a base of about 18,000 individual investors, the official said. <\/p>\n<p>The total paid-up capital of the airport is Rs.306.06 crore of which the Kerala government accounts for Rs.100 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The CIAL became the first airport in the world to operate on solar power last year when a 12 MW solar power plant was commissioned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third terminal at the Cochin International Airport here will be opened next Friday by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, an official said. &#8220;The brand new terminal is built in a record time of two years over an area of 15 lakh sqft and will handle 4,000 passengers,&#8221; the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) official said. Opened in 1999, CIAL is the country&#8217;s first greenfield airport built and managed in the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode. It is the biggest of the three international airports in Kerala. During 2015, a record 70 lakh passengers, both domestic and international, used the airport in more [&hellip;]<\/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-55036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55036","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=55036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}